Media

Please welcome a new addition – my Media page. The bulk of my professional work for the past 40+ years has been in print, but over the years I have been be seen and heard. You can watch me in action discussing Bob Dylan and Nick Drake.I realised a lifetime’s ambition when the John Cooper Clarke documentary Ten Years In An Open-Neck Shirt in which I appear shared a double bill with the Dylan documentary Don't Look Back at the ICA!  Otherwise here’s an opportunity to watch the hair and glasses alter…

On radio, and buried deep beneath the (air) waves somewhere at the BBC you could no doubt hear me talking to Johnnie Walker, Robert Elms, Steve Wright and as far back as Brian Matthew. I did regular stints on Radio 5 with Sibyl Ruscoe. But most of my time before the mast was on the Phill Jupitus Breakfast Show on BBC 6 Music in the early 21st Century. He and maverick producer Phil Wilding did their best to unsettle me. Oh, and BTW, my With The Beatles has been getting 85% 4 and 5* reviews on Amazon…