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 […]
You Should Never Meet Your Heroes!
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 […]
A story about John Lennon and Brian Wilson
By Alice Cooper This is a story about John Lennon and Brian Wilson. “I was sitting backstage after the 1974 Grammys with Bernie Taupin (Elton John’s lyricist) and John Lennon. This was […]
WHITE HOT DAYS
By Jim Kerr, Simple Minds As you’ll most likely know, many of Europe’s workers go on holiday in August. Also in England, August is considered the height of summer and the month […]
Watch a Never-Before-Aired James Baldwin Interview From 1979
Buried by ABC at the time, the segment reveals a unique glimpse into Baldwin’s private life—as well as his resounding criticism about white fragility, as blisteringly relevant today as it was in […]
This Is England
🏴 This Is England: Ash Sarkar’s Alternative Race Report. “No other country could have made someone as obnoxious as me”.
Don’t be surprised at the racist abuse of Bukayo Saka – this is England, after all
By Rupert Hawksley, The Independent You can argue that only a small minority of fans were involved, that they don’t represent England – but you’d be lying to yourself. It was inevitable. […]
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