Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing by Tracey Thorn A couple of years ago, I really enjoyed reading Tracey Thorn’s memoirBedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Became a Popstarabout her career as a solo singer and one half of Everything But The Girl. Earlier this ye...
Given that the selection of CDs in charity shops usually consists of records by boybands like Another Level and other examples of the very worst of 90’s pop music that everybody wants to forget about, minimal techno music is an extremely rare find. ‘Yesterday and Today’ may only ...
as I’m also reading the last few chapters of that Laurie Lee. Yes, the one I’ve mentioned for the last three weeks. I’m notentirelysure about The Night Book; I find myself cringing whenever Richard Madeley mentions sex or the main character getting naked. It’s not me, it’s Ma...
Amazon has changed the world. eBay has changed the world. Craigslist has changed the world—put about a zillion nails in the coffins of newspapers, among many other Richter 8.0+ things. Craigslist has more traffic than Amazon or eBay; though a private company, Craigslist has a projected ...
We know what Richard III wants. What Claudius wants. What Lady Macbeth wants. But what the hell (yes, definitely hell) does Iago really want? His motive is the consummate puzzle. Coleridge’s note on Iago in his own copy of Shakespeare has become famous: “the motive-hunting of motiveless...