I learned the real meaning of gold fever when I was 13 – although in my case the fever was silver and came in the shape of 33 Roman coins dug out of the bed of a small stream on … read more
Conned by the Lebanese Loop (Daily Mail 8.9.2021)
We got conned a couple of weeks ago – as, according to Action Fraud, were 504,489 other people during the past 13 months. That’s right. Nearly half a million people in the UK have had money stolen from them in … read more
The Beatles Get Back Revised (October 2, 2021)
The Beatles were hardly a happy band of musical brothers when they assembled before film cameras shortly after ten in Twickenham Film Studios on the morning of January 2, 1969. It was too early in the day for John and … read more
The Everly Brothers Hits – Radio Times, December 1982
When the Everly Brothers had their first hits in the late 50s they were both barely more than boys, and the sound of those two late adolescents harmonising about sorrow, pain and the hurts of teenage love, was imprinted on … read more
My Covid Summer
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
Shadows on a Wall – just republished in paperback & digital
‘Probably the best novel about movie making ever written’
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=shaDOWS+ON+A+WALL+RAY+CONNOLLY&ref=nb_sb_noss
A limousine is discovered at the bottom of a river. Inside are the bodies of two world famous Hollywood stars, a young film director and a famous rock musician. Meanwhile … read more
That’ll Be The Day & Stardust
Studio Canal will be issuing new DVDs of both That’ll Be the Day and Stardust later this month, launching them both with special showings of both films at London cinemas. If you would like to book tickets, here are the … read more
The Henley Literary Festival
I will be appearing at the Henley Literary Festival at 6.30 pm on Friday, October 4, talking about my biography – John Lennon: A Restless Life and, I suspect, other Beatles subjects.… read more
