Tim Worstall

The guitarist in this now writes songs for Beyonce. Unbelievable: not everyone from the Forest of Dean is an as thick as pigshit inbred then?

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During one visit to Tork’s Laurel Canyon mansion, singer Jackson Browne later recalled: “Jimi Hendrix was up there jamming with Buddy Miles in the pool house, and Peter’s girlfriend was playing the drums, naked.”

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People may say I can’t sing, but no one can say I didn’t sing. Words to live by whatever your lack of talent.

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He made appearances in blues clubs alone or in a trio, often sporting a homburg, one foot stomping to the beat – although never on Sundays. “I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel,” he told the Tribune.

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One of the readers here would like you to know that it is his very own son tromboning here.

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Don’t think so Radley. Acid, yes, but not cocaine.

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Or rather, why is this a story at all? Songs featured in the award-winning high school musical, which airs in the UK on Channel 4′s digital E4, have become fixtures in the charts and Paltrow’s take on the glam rock star’s 1973 hit Do You Wanna Touch Me was no different. The episode aired in [...]

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And why I am not the only one who has been gripped by the heart-stopping playing of principal viola Amihai Grosz, who performs Mahler symphonies as if they were string quartets – and quartets as if symphonies. Mebbe it’s just me, but shouldn’t symphonies be played as symphonies, quartets as quartets? You know, like waltzs [...]

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Anyway, it was all over in about 90 minutes, and I can honestly say that it was not the worst 90 minutes of my life, because I have had a colonoscopy.

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Gary Moore: A minority taste perhaps, he himself didn’t think he was a technically great guitar player. But damn, he and his band were having fun there, the most important part of the live music experience. Vale.

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So, err, which is Gerry?

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all he looks for in a woman is bilateral symmetry And more: He’s got a very decent “soul” voice. Who knew?

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The song transcended the regular folk genre on account of its signature saxophone riff played by Raphael Ravenscroft, who received a one-off session fee of £27 (£169 today-Tim). The cheque bounced, and Ravenscroft had it framed and hung on the wall of his lawyer’s office. So he wasn’t even on Musicians’ Union rates…..

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And as our New Year Competition, what is the connection between the above and this second piece? Not too tough….

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I’ll continue to enjoy Lennon’s music.  But his political ‘philosophy’ is to human enlightenment what, say, a rock concert by Milton Friedman would have been to human entertainment. Don Boudreaux

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On the veneration of John Lennon: Don’t knock it. There’s not many cargo cults that have an actual airport.

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Years ago, more than I really care to remember, I was working as a waiter in a restaurant and there was one partiular track on the music tape that I thought was just astounding. No, not a tape you could take out and look at, this was one of those centrally made tape loops that [...]

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That is the paradox of the Chess story. The brothers were not musical visionaries; they were small-time “indie” record men making a quick buck from the poorest, least respected people in America. But their cheaply recorded, bread-and-butter discs of local street musicians and bar bands still sound as fresh today as they did 60 years [...]

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“Edgar Allen Poe wrote this thing about music where he said, ‘People think that when they cry to music it’s because they’re being sentimental about the memories of a time gone past, but it’s not true. The reason they cry is because they get a glimpse of the banquet that gods are feasting upon.’ I [...]

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