Sir Paul McCartney kicks off world tour with expressive support for Ukraine
One cannot but rejoice that the vast majority of legendary musicians and actors support Ukraine in the fight against Russian aggression. Sir Paul McCartney’s world tour started…
Grammy winner Jon Batiste: ‘Genre is an archaic concept’
NB: This interview first ran on April 2, and has been republished following Jon Batiste’s four Grammy wins – including the award for Album of the Year…
Michael Bublé: ‘I wasn’t ready for a comeback. I was still a wreck’
The album was initially set in motion when Bublé made a recording of Charlie Chaplin’s Smile for the late Captain Tom Moore when he was doing his…
Michael Bublé: ‘I wasn’t ready for a comeback. I was still a wreck’
The album was initially set in motion when Bublé made a recording of Charlie Chaplin’s Smile for the late Captain Tom Moore when he was doing his…
Grammys wunderkind Jon Batiste: ‘Genre is an archaic concept’
Jon Batiste has been nominated for an extraordinary 11 Grammy awards this year, more than any fellow nominee (and one short of Michael Jackson’s record-breaking 12 for…
‘I could make colours freak out’: meet photography’s answer to Jimi Hendrix
Ferris’s psychedelic photography is memorialised in an ongoing show at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, Beautiful People: The Boutique in 1960s Counterculture, and also in…
Bryan Adams: ‘It’s easy to fall into the self-abuse that happens with success’
When one recalls the last few years, it is hard to feel optimistic. Unless your name is Bryan Adams. The Canadian rock star, best known for hits…
John Lennon, Charles Manson and UFOs — what The Beatles: Get Back left out
Indeed, Lennon was largely responsible for The Beatles’ flirtation with the more far-out elements of the counterculture. As their renown grew, he increasingly took a performative, Warhol-esque…
Want to write the perfect pop song? Let Paul McCartney show you how
Even better was Paphides’s programme on the perfect power ballad, the kind of song that’s perfect to sing loudly en masse with clenched fists, contorted brows and…
The best new music books to buy for Christmas 2021
Bobby Gillespie’s Tenement Kid (White Rabbit, £20) takes us from his rough working-class childhood in Glasgow to the release of Primal Scream’s trailblazing acid rock album, Screamadelica,…
The Beatles: Get Back, review: Peter Jackson’s epic edit is truly fab, but too long and winding
Episode one (which debuts today) depicts the group getting to grips with a huge, cold, acoustically challenging film studio in Twickenham, whilst Harrison’s mood visibly darkens and…
Over 50? Here’s how to be a MAD (midlife, attractive and dependable) man
Hollywood star Paul Rudd, 52, has been named this year’s Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine. Are we bothered? No. Sexiness is subjective, after all, and Paul…