LAST year I worked on a report for UK Music, the music industry trade body, that estimated that it would add £4 billion to UK GDP if all parts of the UK generated as much revenue from music heritage activities as Liverpool, writes JONATHAN TODD. All those Beatles...
IT’S Thursday, July 21st, just before 10pm. I find myself above The Old Blue last in Shoreditch awaiting a hastily arranged gig by the man Noel Gallagher once described as the only contemporary songwriter who scares the shit out of him. Liam is also in...
GENIUS. Just a word on a page. Yet it somehow seems symbolic for a man who did just that; wrote words on a page. Tortured. Shambolic. Obsessed. Reclusive. Melancholic. Disappointing. These are other words on my page. All of them and many more besides can be used to...
