Rolling stones

Are you Beatles or Stones?

5 October 2024 9:00 am

You find me in the south of France, holed up in that inn of near perfection called La Colombe d’Or…

The festivalisation of TV

27 June 2020 9:00 am

Televising Glastonbury has changed the festival, and in turn transformed television, says Graeme Thomson

Magnificently incoherent: Royal Trux’s White Stuff reviewed

9 March 2019 9:00 am

Grade:A Royal Trux are back — kind of. Singer (if that’s what you want to call what she does) Jennifer…

Up close with the Rolling Stones

7 July 2018 9:00 am

At 7 p.m., panting, I knocked on the door of room 201 of the Hotel InterContinental, Marseille, expecting it to…

I try to cut the hypocrisy when speaking to my boy – but it’s tough sometimes

7 April 2018 9:00 am

My boy rang the other night. He said he and his wife had bought tickets to see Ed Sheeran at…

Ronnie Wood’s ‘Wild Horses’ (2005), acrylic on canvas

For Ronnie Wood, every picture tells a story

16 December 2017 9:00 am

I am in Paris for the Rolling Stones’ No Filter concert, in Ronnie Wood’s dressing room minutes before he is…

Album cover

England Lost/Gotta Get A Grip

12 August 2017 9:00 am

Two songs in which Sir Michael informs us that he is distressed by both Brexit and Donald Trump. Released with,…

Compiling my greatest hits (and my Twitter trolls')

25 July 2015 9:00 am

Compilation schompilation. Having been in music for as long as I have you would think I had a good idea…

Is there anything a gospel choir can't cheer up?

8 November 2014 9:00 am

‘I’m starting to think that all of the world’s major problems can be solved with either oyster sauce or backing…

What backing singers are really thinking behind the ‘ooh, ooh, oohs’

29 March 2014 9:00 am

Have you ever looked at backing singers and thought: what is their story? Do they or have they ever prayed…

The last taboo in pop: fat old men

13 July 2013 9:00 am

Don’t worry, I’m not going to go on about Glastonbury. I wasn’t there, I never have been and, unless forced…

Satisfaction guaranteed: Mick Jagger

The Stones at Glastonbury: the greatest show EVER

6 July 2013 9:00 am

Yes, I’m sorry, the Stones at Glastonbury really were that good and if you weren’t there I’m afraid you seriously…