Johnny Marr’s pre-Smiths, post-punk influences: a YouTube playlist
One of the more interesting aspects of researching my Smiths biography was talking to Johnny Marr about the thriving post-punk scene of the very late 1970s and the very early...
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October 17, 2012
Eight Track Cartridges: A museum opens in Roxbury
During our family’s recent road trip across America, I made a point of visiting music museums, from Memphis to Kansas City to Cleveland. I hadn’t expected to return home to...
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October 15, 2012
The Greatest Ride of Our Lives Part 5: The Grand Canyon
As a writer, I’m understandably wary of the old adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” But when it comes to the Grand Canyon… I was speechless. The photographs...
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October 8, 2012
The Smiths’ first recording: I Want A Boy For My Birthday
October 4 marked the 30th anniversary of the first ever Smiths gig, at the Ritz in Manchester, opening for Blue Rondo a La Turk. Dale Hibbert was on bass; Andy...
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October 5, 2012
The Greatest Ride of Our Lives Part 4: 1500 miles across America’s South
Part 3, Part 2, Part 1 Hard though it seems now to believe, but on a Tuesday afternoon this past August, on our family cross-country road trip, we were still...
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October 4, 2012
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
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