Book review: The Rise The Fall and The Rise

I like reading memoirs by musicians – especially by women musicians, because those stories are only just starting to be told. But Brix Smith Start’s book, The Rise The Fall and The Rise, isn’t really a rock’n’roll memoir: it’s a very long autobiography with a bit of rock’n’roll in it.

In praise of “WTF” records

I like having friends younger than me, particularly when it comes to the music round in the pub quiz. And because it gives me a different perspective.

But sometimes it makes me feel old, like when they turn out to have heard of Mott the Hoople because their parents had the albums.