From My Life – Regular Marvels

An unexpected revival

As I worked on it, I realised that it is another Regular Marvel, the simplest, easiest but in some ways the most beautiful yet

Originally posted on Parliament of Dreams:
Music: What is it good for? In the 1970s, at a time when we were less…

From My Life is the most ambitious Regular Marvel so far, and it is already testing some aspects of the

Classical music is as important as photography in Terence Davies’ elegiac film about the people and city of Liverpool in

‘Music is in the first place of art. It brings us on an island with peace, beauty and love. Music

A quick post to highlight a radio programme called The Folklorist, about Izzy Young, who was central to the Greenwich Village

‘Pete Seeger’s great work was not just singing the songs, but getting everybody else to sing them—getting his audience, us,

‘What is this shit?’ The opening words of Greil Marcus’ 1970 review of Bob Dylan’s Self Portrait have become a

Snap, crackle and pop The sky was all you could see from the music room’s high windows. Blue, grey, white,

Do you remember the first time you heard the true sound of your voice? Not the familiar sound inside your