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In a two-part series on BBC Radio 2, we are looking specifically at the music of the time and the way it was fuelled by the politics. It is fascinating …

I wasn’t even aware that this song was about Margaret Thatcher (or maybe I did know, and had just forgotten). I would’ve thought a more obvious track would’ve been Morrissey’s …

Hardly news but I was watching an (hilarious) episode of c4’s “The Inbetweeners” when bang there’s a dissolve to a new scene featuring about 5 seconds of Wild Orphan.

From the San Francisco Chronicle (website) 28th May 2009. By Michelle Richmond – Author / Booklover / Observer of Neighborhoods. Songs to Write By.

Academy Award-winning Director Sam Mendes says his life has been “lived out in songs” – from the tune his father sang to him at bedtime to the track that was playing while his first child was born. In his Guest DJ set, he shares a realization inspired by seeing an artist who refuses to cater to his audience…

Not quite as high brow as Kim Gordon, though…

I have dropped 3 places to #14. The way my game has been I’m amazed I’m still top 20. Some of these guys are really good, and Vince Gill is …

The Lloyd Cole Part of the Interview.

MJ: Well, one of the ideas I’m now seriously considering, and which has been suggested to me by both Jim and Lloyd Cole, is …

One of the short stories in author/poet/critic/photographer and Lloyd Cole fan Kelvin Hayes’s upcoming book ‘Beats Per Minute’ is titled after Lloyd’s ‘Are You Ready to be Heartbroken?’ (all stories are named after songs – see list below).

Toronto — “You don’t go out to the Dakota, you go in,” says Jason Collett, one of Broken Social Scene’s guitarists, as he saddles up to the wooden bar of his downtown local at Dundas and Ossington on Toronto’s Portuguese west side.