One lunchtime in 1961 a young telephone engineer called Mal Evans took a different route back to work after … read more
Will It Be 1966 All Over Again? (Mail On Sunday, August 20, 2020
Hurrah The Lionesses
Ray Connolly
Some moments you remember all your life. One of mine happened fifteen minutes after … read more
Manchester City 1, Inter Milan 0 May 13, 2023
Consider the newspaper photographs the day after. See the unrestrained euphoria of the fans who congregated together on Saturday night … read more
The Making of That’ll Be the Day and Stardust – Daily Mail, 28.2.23
No-one sets out to write a film that half a century later is considered a cult movie. But I did, … read more
Sam and the Monkey Suit
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The Fancy Dress Party
Sam had a problem. His friend Abbie was having a fancy dress birthday party on … read more
Who Killed Elvis? (June 21, 2022)
Who killed Elvis Presley? In his new film ‘Elvis’, which goes on release this week, writer-director Baz Luhrmann makes a … read more
The Mole of Edge Hill, Liverpool – Williamson Tunnels (Daily Mail, November 1, 2021)
You can’t beat a bit of real mystery as the background for dramatic super-reality, can you? Well, that’s what the … 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 … read more
My Back Pages (An edited version of this article appeared in The Oldie, December. 2021)
What Muhammad Ali, Bob Dylan, Lord Hailsham, Leonard Cohen, John Lennon, Roger Vadim, Michael Caine, Leonard Cheshire, Paul Raymond, Eric … read more
‘He’s Nearly 40’ (Daily Mail, August 21, 2019)
Responding to research from Heidelberg University that stated that parents are happier when their children have left home, I wrote:… read more
