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Regulars on both sides of various Soho bars having been mourning the familiar figure the vast majority of us knew simply as Pam. This portrait by photographer Carla Borel captures Pam’s charm, sweetness and light. And she’s in her element, outside The French. Alastair Choat, landlord of The Coach & Horses, is hosting the wake […]
I interviewed the restaurateur and fine food champion Justin de Blank – who died last month aged 85 – for Reasons To Be Cheerful; de Blank recognised Barney Bubbles’ design talents when the pair met at the Conran Group’s design studio in the 60s.
I interviewed Bernard Lansky, who has died aged 85, for my first book The Look: Adventures In Rock & Pop Fashion early one morning in March 2000 at his menswear store which was by then located in Memphis tourist attraction, the Peabody Hotel. His son Hal had forewarned me: “You’d better get there early; once […]
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Sad to note the death yesterday of the great journalist and author Robert Hughes.
I was in the audience at the Beacon Theatre NYC for the 1999 VH1 Divas, where this Whitney Houston performance was recorded. Her presence during this particular song is electrifying; she exudes vulnerability, a tortured female star (the wrong side of 35 according to the precepts of the global music industry) visibly dealing with the […]
Here is Charles Shaar Murray’s contribution to my Clarence Clemons obit in today’s Daily Telegraph; his quotes fell victim to space considerations.
While I was writing an obituary for Clarence Clemons today, my friend Yuki Yoshioka texted me with the information that our mutual acquaintance the Swedish musician Gustaf Kjellvander died suddenly in his sleep on Saturday. He was 31. Yuki says Gustaf popped into his thoughts this morning. On a whim, Google led him to Gustaf’s […]
My obituary for the DJ Andy Dunkley is in the Telegraph today – see here. This photograph was taken on Hawkwind’s 1972 Space Ritual tour, on which he was the DJ and MC. Here he is kicking off proceedings (with help from Stacia Blake) for the band which Lemmy described as “like Star Trek with long […]