May 18th was the date of two tragic events - both of which are marking their 45 year anniversary in 2025. One has a musical connection,...

Backbeat is a movie about the Beatles in their 'before they were famous' phase, trawling the dingy clubs of Liverpool and Hamburg in the...

Now, I am generally not one to embrace the festivities - but tis the season, and all that! Like my daughter's college buses - you wait...

Most people have trouble naming the capital cities of more than a handful of countries - but what about US State capitals? Well, most...

A couple of things this last week - one a sadly unfolding saga of a band crumbling in front of our eyes, the other a very specific (and...

As another wonderful summer Olympiad draws to a close, it seems only fitting that we mark it with a playlist - and I think that this...

Most songs written have fallen into one theme or another - there have been songs about love, day and night, good and bad, life and...

Today is the fourth Thursday of November, which means it is the day that the United States gives thanks for the fruits of its harvests,...

November 1st and 2nd is a holiday period particularly important in Mexico - known in Spanish as el Dia de Muertos or el Dias de los...

Earlier today (29 September), the Great Britain baseball team beat Germany to reach the final of the European Championships - a great run...

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...

No-one will believe when I say that it wasn't that recent low-key event in London that put this theme in my mind, but rather that I heard...

It's time to wrap up our three day celebration of the much missed George Harrison, on what would have been his 80th birthday weekend. In...

It is time to celebrate what would have George Harrison's - a.k.a. 'the quiet one' - 80th birthday, be delving a little into his life and...

The first playlist of the new year - and it seemed appropriate (especially looking out of the window as I write this) for it to be our...

Separated by two days, and 5,300 miles, some children were born that would literally change the course of music history. It is quite hard...