As I promised / threatened in a Playlist recently, I am doing one completely devoted to the genre of films defined by the actors that starred in them - the Brat Pack! The Brat Pack is the label given to a handful of films made over a relatively short period of time (roughly 1982 - 1989), defined by the actors that appeared in them, and which tended to centre on young person / teenage themes, with many of them being written and directed by John Hughes. The term had been coined

Last week the world lost one of its most celebrated and important musicians, when Steve Cropper died aged 84 on 3 December. The 1960s was the era of the session band; the US was stacked full of them, pretty much every major label had them - there was the Muscle Shoals crew, the Memphis Horns, the Wrecking Crew and of course, Booker T. and The MG's at Stax. Photo: Don Paulsen / Michael Ochs Archive / Getty Images Cropper was a core member of that last lot, through much of the

I was in the middle of putting a completely different post together the other day, but it was quite a dark one, and after a rough couple...

Sixty years ago this month, legendary country star Patsy Cline lost her life in a plane crash. This story is about her, and the...

Well, as previously mentioned, I don't particularly 'do' Christmas, especially from a musical point of view. So, I thought my festive...