Do you seize the moment, or does the moment seize you? Youth is both an infinity and finite. The moment is always right now. Pressure is a choice. It’s scarcely believable to me, but a quarter of a century ago today (Saturday 1 October 2016) was the day I first went away to university. A […]
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#7songs: What seven songs define your life?
If you had to pick seven songs over seven days, what would they be? Music is a language all its own. One I can’t speak, one I can’t describe. But one I can listen to endlessly. Music is a world all its own. One we can step into whenever we want, and go wherever we […]
The flash in the Beatles biographer’s eye
The game is afoot. A new piece of the puzzle is discovered. It was my good fortune to attend the ‘premiere’ screening of the 50th anniversary souped-up, “very clean” re-release of the Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night at the BFI in London on Thursday (3 July 2014). I also got to see one truly […]