Monthly Archives: October 2010
Yes We Can Restore Sanity (and Vote Nov. 2)
The USA hasn’t been the greatest country to live in the last two years. Despite the historic election of a black President, a President that seemed to embody the hopes...
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October 29, 2010
A Light That Never Goes Out: The Saga of The Smiths
Announcing my next project: an extensive biography of The Smiths, to be published by William Heinemann in the UK and Crown Books in the USA. Though there are several books...
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October 19, 2010
My Major News Update: All Hopped Up/The Smiths/Boy About Town
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October 19, 2010
R.I.P. Malcolm Allison
A short excerpt from my upcoming memoir, Boy About Town, this part about following Crystal Palace FC: The first year I started going to the Palace on my own, the...
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October 15, 2010
All Hopped Up Music and Maps: Chapter 12
“All Tomorrow’s Parties,” Chapter 12 of my book All Hopped Up and Ready To Go: Music from The Streets Of New York 1927-77, deals with the music that emerged from...
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October 8, 2010
You Know That Running Has Taken Over Your Life When…
So I was on the phone to my mother, as I often am on a Saturday, and I told her I’d been out for a long run already, as I...
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October 4, 2010