Older than Elvis

It’s the end of the year, and blog posts are infecting the internet with words like “mindset”: the answer, apparently, to being healt...

A Facebook meme just turned up on a friend’s post: “Guess who’s still alive in 2016? Keith f****ing Richards.” I fought the temptation to...

I like reading memoirs by musicians – especially by women musicians, because those stories are only just starting to be told. But Brix Sm...

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...

Like many people my age, I often watch the music documentaries on BBC4 on a Friday night. Sometimes I enjoy these programmes. Sometimes I ha...