Those lovely young women who publish Slightly Foxed, the quarterly journal for the ‘real reader’, wrote in their e-blast the other day about them taking a few days off to… Read More →

Derek Taylor was the press officer for The Beatles in 1964 and toured with them on their first visit to America, later working for their organisation Apple Corps in London.… Read More →

Record Store Day began back in 2007 as an annual event held on one Saturday in April each year to, quote, ‘celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store’.… Read More →

Fifty years after the event, today sees the release of a live recording of The Who in concert on 6 April 1968 at the Fillmore East in New York City.… Read More →

It’s his first day . . .  

With Pete Townshend taking a year’s sabbatical from any performing, it’s up to Roger Daltrey to keep the Who banner flying and as Roger says, he has to keep singing… Read More →

I’m certainly not the first person to have discovered Boris Anrep and I most certainly won’t be the last.  Many of us discover him in exactly the same way –… Read More →

I was never really a big fan of the Moomins, a cursory glance at the comic strip which used to be featured in the London Evening Standard. It all looked… Read More →

A couple of months ago I re-created the original artwork for two all-time classic Who albums, both of which have been reissued this week. And both on glorious heavyweight vinyl.… Read More →

Talking of things Floydian and the colour pink, this past summer I was working on  Pete Townshend’s three solo albums in his Scoop series which have all been reissued by Universal… Read More →