rock’n’roll
Like attending a joyous religious service: We Will Rock You, at the Coliseum, reviewed
One of the earliest jukebox musicals has returned to the West End. When the show opened in 2002 the author,…
Pretentious jowly mumrock: Neil Diamond’s Hot August Night III reviewed
Grade: C+ Mumrock. A lucrative genre, dating from the beginning of the 1970s, when Mums suddenly wanted something a little…
Keith Moon’s wedding-night abseil and other marvellous false memories
False memory disasters, from Keith Moon’s wedding-night abseil to Sophia Loren’s peanut addiction
What it takes to make Exmouth rock out
She was dying for a mad night out, she said, so where was I going to take her? I know,…
The rock novel that makes Mötley Crüe dull
Novels set in the music business (from blockbuster to coming-of-age) are few and far between — far less than in…