WHEN two savvy Southerners hooked up with two West Midlands wild men, it was a case of light the blue touch paper and stand well back. As legend has it, they were supposed to go down like “a lead ...
It doesn’t help me,” Marianne Faithfull bluntly said when asked if songwriting “helped” her. “What is this? F–king therapy?” she added. “I do not write things to help myself.” Despite a non-remedial ...
By 1984, hip-hop had evolved from its grassroots beginnings in the Bronx into a cultural movement on the cusp of mainstream recognition. Run-DMC’s self-titled debut album releas ...