Jamming! on the South Bank
Pleased to see that an old issue of Jamming! is on display at the Someday All the Adults Will Die: Punk Graphics 1971-1984 Exhibition at the Hayward Center on London’s...
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October 1, 2012
Manchester (Post) Punk: A YouTube Playlist
In researching my biography, A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths, I put together this 30-song playlist of Manchester punk and post-punk. These songs all...
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September 28, 2012
The Greatest Ride of Our Lives, Part 3: the Stax and National Civil Rights Museums
The great Fletcher family road trip of 2012 spent two days and nights in Memphis experiencing the ghosts of America’s music city in museum form. Following Monday at Graceland and...
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September 27, 2012
A Light That Never Goes Out: the American cover is in!
Finally, the front jacket for the American edition of my Smiths biography, to be published by Crown Archetype on December 4. Hope you dig. I do....
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September 26, 2012
Thick As Thieves: Jam fans tell their story
Two years back, while in Britain on a lengthy research trip for my Smiths biography, I went to Brighton for a Paul Weller concert (my first time seeing the Modfather...
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September 25, 2012
A Distance for Everyone
…So runs the tag line and sales pitch for the brand new, cross-America HITS Triathlon Series. I first heard about the Series on a Marathon training run this past winter,...
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September 24, 2012
The Greatest Ride of Our Lives, Part 2: Graceland and Sun Studio
(Part 1) From Knoxville, we took off for Memphis, bypassing Nashville which, for all its historical importance, seemed less relevant to our own magical musical tour. I’ve been to Nashville...
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September 21, 2012
A Light That Never Goes Out: A Video
I put together a brief video about my new book for my author page at amazon. Seems like I might as well share it more fully. Enjoy. The book in...
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September 20, 2012
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