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Essex girls and Belfast boys: Sheridan Morley on why an Eighties musical revival fails to score. . - theater review
Nostalgia, as the old joke goes, isn't what it used to be. Although Tell Me on Sunday is, in fact, barely more than 20 years old, it is curiously now ......(Continue Reading) Give music a chance: despite Damon and ms Dynamite, today's protest singers can't match Dylan and Lennon - Features
A line in Edwyn Collins's biggest hit, "A Girl Like You", sums up our current predicament: "Too many protest singers, not enough protest songs". The ......(Continue Reading)Take Back the Music
"Stop in the name of love." That's what you said when we asked you to tell us how you feel about Black women's images in urban music today....(Continue Reading)The wow factor: with her first single up for a Brit Award and a new album soon to be released, Kate Bush is back in a big way. It's been a long wait, writes
When I mentioned at a recent New Statesman editorial conference that I wanted to write about Kate Bush, who is preparing to release her first album for 12 years, colleagues responded with a mixture...(Continue Reading)No regrets: Anita Baker let go of fame to raise her sons, save her marriage, and hold her dying mother in her arms. Now the Grammy-winning songstress is
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN YOU COULDN'T BE IN LOVE AND NOT HEAR ANITA BAKER'S SMOKY contralto whispering into your soul to go for it. She preached a biblical ......(Continue Reading)
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