This is a fantastic piece by Will Sheff about a Dr Hook live DVD. It’s an astonishing piece of writing, full of love and humour and showing how one man’s treasure can be found in the most ephemeral fluff (a couple of band members show up in the comments and essentially say that they had forgotten all about this show).
Until I came here to post this, I had no idea that Dennis Locorriere had died this week. Perhaps that’s what prompted it to surface, perhaps it’s just a cosmic coincidence. I did toy with adding it to the RIP thread, but I was hoping to use it to provoke some links and reminiscences of some other great music writing that’s buried away somewhere on the internet. Any offers?
My favourite article about music is here, on a sports oriented website: https://www.theringer.com/2021/05/05/music/the-eagles-glen-frey-don-henley-50-years
This is my favourite. Danny Baker joins Madness on the set of Tiswas.
https://thequietus.com/interviews/rocks-backpages/madness-interview-by-danny-baker/
I was only today re reading The Stiff Records Story. Apparently, Madness were banned from Tiswas after Suggs and Chas sprayed Sally James with silly string and pulled one of her false eyelashes off.
Tiswas was a hotbed of shenanigans- see also the (possibly mythical) story of Lemmy and Linda Nolan
Not really a fan of Tony Parsons in general, but his piece on Bruce Springsteen in 1978 captures him brilliantly at that crucial stage of his career. Had a big effect on me although I actually read it a couple of years later.
http://www.thelightindarkness.com/darkness/bruce-the-myth-just-keeps-on-coming/
Excellent article on Dr. Hook. I remember meeting our Colin at the Stables in Milton Keynes and we got onto Anne Briggs and I talked at length about a brilliant long piece about her in Mojo years earlier and when I’d finished Colin revealed that he had actually written it. Wish I still had it.