Steve Swindells Interview
The great singer/songwriter/pianist, Steve Swindells, whose 1974 RCA album, Messages, is a personal favourite, spoke to me for Record Collector, Sept 2022 (RC #535), not only about being out in…
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David Lasley And Rosie Interview
The wonderful singer/songwriter/backing vocalist, David Lasley, died in December 2021. A few months prior to that, he and I had spoken. I was planning a feature about Rosie, the fabulous…
Peter Straker Interview
Singer, songwriter and actor, Peter Straker, and I chatted for an hour or two in Marylebone for this Record Collector feature. Straker’s second, third and fourth albums were recently reissued…
Dana Gillespie Interview
For PopMatters, I chatted to Dana Gillespie – blues singer/songwriter (among many other accomplishments) – on the eve of the publication of her memoir, Weren’t Born A Man (Hawksmoor Publishing).…
Review: Mick Ronson/Only After Dark
Although it came to a chaotic and financially ruinous end, the MainMan management company did produce some of the most interesting albums of the 1970s. I’ve long loved the two…
Ruth Copeland Interview
Few singers have had such interesting career and life trajectories as Ruth Copeland. For years, I’ve wanted to write about her and was both thrilled and disappointed when Mojo got…
Dana Gillespie Interview
Although every other part of her career has been covered by plentiful reissues, Dana Gillespie’s time with RCA (when she was in the MainMan stable of recording stars, overseen by…
Catherine Howe…Because It Would Be Beautiful
At some point in early adolescence, I began to realise that a person’s fame was not necessarily commensurate with her talent. And never has this been more the case than…