It was once a trope of rock n roll that ageing pop stars should have called it a day long before they started to go grey, lose their voice and run out of ideas. Pop music, after all, pretty much invented the generation gap in the latter half of the 20th century. From outrage atElvis’sContinue reading “When did ageing rockers become cool?”
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Macca, best of the Beatles
Paul McCartney is 80. Really. A man who helped invent youth culture and the generation gap is now an octogenarian. And he’s still making decent albums and touring. Who is the greatest, Lennon or McCartney? It’s almost a debate not worth having. The world was lucky that two such magnificent song writers coincided in theContinue reading “Macca, best of the Beatles”
Bowie: just better than everyone else
Everyone has their own taste, their own likes and dislikes. Music is a hugely varied form and what we love or hate or don’t really get is entirely personal. All that said, can we all just agree on one thing: David Bowie is without parallel, an absolute genius who is just a little bit betterContinue reading “Bowie: just better than everyone else”
Why do we need to know what music you hate?
There’s an awful lot of awful things happening. War in Ukraine, emerging environmental catastrophe, democracy itself facing multiple threats in the era of post-truth politics. The horror of the global Covid pandemic has not gone away. We have so much on our plates. But perhaps what we really should be focusing on is why youContinue reading “Why do we need to know what music you hate?”
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