David Hepworth's blog

I love a diary. I'm just reading the second volume of James Lees-Milne's . I'm not greatly bothered about the professional w...

Over the last year I've recorded a bunch of programmes in the above series for Radio Two in which Johnnie and I enthuse over old favouri...

I came upon these two while sorting through some old books. The Radio Luxembourg Book of Record Stars must come from 1963 because the Beat...

I watched "Last Orders" , the BBC 4 doc about Chas and Dave. It must be funny being them. They've played the same music for ...

Yesterday I took part in a debate about digital magazines at the London College Of Communications . The last time I was there it was the Lon...

In the last couple of years of The Word's life the Word In Your Ear gigs were one of the most popular things we did. These were generall...

An opera professional said to me recently: "No operatic tenor would dream of performing one of their old songs in the same key that the...

George McGovern died this weekend at ninety. Most of the people furiously tweeting about the Presidential election won't know who he wa...

Don McGlashan wrote some great songs for the Mutton Birds but the best one is "A Thing Well Made". It's about a man who runs ...

A few years back a musician friend said something that changed the way I think about rock bands. Traditionally we tend to accept that leader...

The Telegraph was presumably flying a kite when it ran today's story about the Guardian's alleged "plans" to dump the pape...

Last night I found myself at the  Oldie British Artist Awards  in Mayfair. The competition's open to artists over the age of 60. When th...

I wish only the best for Gaby Scanlon, the 18-year-old who has had to have her stomach removed following a misadventure with a birthday cock...

Mike Love issues a long statement to the Los Angeles Times about how he didn't "fire" Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys and w...

Was on Five Live just now talking about the 50th anniversary of the first Beatles single and the first Bond movie and why they both contin...

The latest rumour is that The Smiths will reform for Glastonbury next year. I don't know whether this is true. I doubt whether anyone do...

I don't have cable but I do have one of these directly outside my house. This one (left) in fact. It belongs to Virgin Media. The engi...

I'm beginning to like going to see people I know nothing about. A friend of ours booked some tickets to see David Sedaris at the Cadoga...

This morning in a moment of serendipity I found this in a pile and put it on. I've always had a soft spot for the streak of hits The S...

The departure of Aasmah Mir from BBC Five Live removes half of one of the BBC's great on-air partnerships. Peter Allen, her Driveti...