John Robinson

David Bowie – Spying Through A Keyhole/Clareville Grove Demos

The right stuff! Ground control prepares for the lift-off of Major Tom, in demo form

18th April 2019

Marianne Faithfull: “I don’t like the word survivor”

Faithfull and producer Rob Ellis on Negative Capability - her late-life masterclass

20th November 2018

John Renbourn – Live In Kyoto 1978

Intimate recording of a master at work

10th July 2018

Alex Turner: “Making an Arctic Monkeys album is not an easy alchemy”

Arctic Monkeys on their future, their past and working with Josh Homme

11th May 2018

David Bowie – Lodger

As five selected stand-alone Bowie albums from last year’s A New Career In A New Town (1977 – 1982) are released, we focus on Lodger...

23rd February 2018

Mark E Smith 1957-2018

John Robinson recalls the playful, elusive genius of the leader of The Fall

25th January 2018

Nick Drake remembered: “My first impression was that he was a genius – it was that simple”

The story of Drake's life and career as told by Joe Boyd, John Wood, Richard Thompson, Beverley Martyn and more

19th January 2018

Fab Christmas: inside The Beatles’ surreal, seasonal singles

The Fab Four's festive releases present an alternative history of the group

15th December 2017

Deep Purple on “Black Night”: “We thought the whole thing was a waste of time”

How an old blues riff, played “good and drunk” after a pub booze-up, became a huge 1970 hit

18th August 2017

“We had to rely on our Motörheadness to get us through”

The classic members recall the story of their mighty band

11th August 2017

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