By Erol Alkan It’s 1984. The 10 year old me had a routine just before I’d go to sleep, and part of it was to listen on headphones to the handful of […]
Writing this post is pretty surreal
A DIRTY WORD?
By Jim Kerr, Simple Minds I’m back in Hamburg.The sun shone as the flight descended through the clouds, much as it did October ’79 when Simple Minds first visited. On that occasion […]
COME A LONG WAY!
By Jim Kerr, Simple Minds In younger years I would find myself anxiously projecting into the future. Doing so, a chill would occasionally run through me when among other things I found […]
TEA FOR TWO?
By Jim Kerr, Simple Minds “You should have a cup of tea with the singer Colin Hay when you get here. He’s a Scot and his band Men At Work are Australia’s […]
Newly found Bob Dylan footage fra 1983
Check out never-before-seen footage of Bob Dylan’s recording session for “Don’t Fall Apart On Me Tonight” at the Power Station in New York.Initially filmed by the Maysles Brothers in 1983, this newly […]
You Should Never Meet Your Heroes!
By Jim Kerr, Simple Minds In the pic a young fan gets to meet the Beatles at the ABC cinema in Edinburgh, 1964. Similarly, at 7 years old I got to shake […]
How China Lifted 850 Million People Out of Extreme Poverty
In February, the Chinese government celebrated the eradication of extreme poverty within its borders. This would be a massive achievement for any country, but for China it’s even more so as it […]
Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz
Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and ‘70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers – brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and […]
She said she wanted to go to Studio 54
Introduction by George Wolff Already a million words have been written about the late Charlie Watts, but no one matches the following brief story. It’s by E. Kaye Fulton, one of Canada’s […]
No more hypocrisy in Afghanistan!
By Waslat Hasrat-Nazimi, DW Afghanistan has been classified as supposedly safe for years. Now that the Taliban overran the country, some in the West are surprised. This hypocrisy must end. No sooner had the […]
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