There is a huge void in my memory that stretches from the middle of last April until the end of July. Sometimes it feels as though I was dead during that time.
I was, in fact, in a coma, lying … read more
There is a huge void in my memory that stretches from the middle of last April until the end of July. Sometimes it feels as though I was dead during that time.
I was, in fact, in a coma, lying … read more
What about that! A guy who stammers is the most powerful man in America – where, of course, they call such an impediment a stutter. Yes, Joe Biden is a stammerer.
You may not have noticed it so successful has … read more
First published in the Daily Mail 13.10.2020.
From the very beginning I was afraid of Covid 19. That was in January when I first began to read reports of deaths in China. If that ever reaches the UK I’ll do … read more
(Renee Zellweger’s performance as Judy Garland is so good and believable that it drove me back to my cuttings book to find my Evening Standard review of Garland’s opening night at the Talk of the Town in London on December … read more
Will you be wrapping up in a scarf, coat and woolly hat and going on a Boxing Day walk this year? Hundreds of thousands of us will be. Maybe a million. It’s a British tradition, and, if you’re really into … read more
We see his face on the sides of buses, in magazines and on billboards as he helps sell cars, jeans, beer and Pepsi Cola. While in the souvenir shops we find his image on T-shirts, posters, calendars and postcards, even … read more
‘Show me a boy who never wanted to be a rock star and I’ll show you a liar…’ was a line I wrote decades ago that was used on the poster for the film Stardust. It caught on as … read more
When I was 18 the only opportunity I had of foreign travel was to stand at the side of the road with my thumb out, and that was how I first saw the Mediterranean. I’d just sat my A-levels and … read more
Beatles fans love anniversaries, but few have been celebrated as much as the one this week when it was fifty years since the release of the group’s last album, Abbey Road.
As expected, there is a remixed version of … read more
For fifty years it’s never been far from our ears. It’s on the radio, it’s a karaoke favourite in bars, it’s crooned in the plural by mobs on football terraces, and it’s heard with increasing frequency at funerals for those … read more