David Hepworth's blog

London never stops amazing you. It's like a huge desk with hundreds of drawers, most of which you never get round to opening.  Last ...

I had to smile this morning when someone tweeted the old Tony Hancock line "have they forgotten Magna Carta? Did she die in vain?"...

Richard Williams'  piece about the anniversary of Subterranean Homesick Blues  got me thinking back to the first time I heard it. In tho...

Discussions about digital migration are often ham-strung by a version of the either/or fallacy. I'm sure the boss of Waterstone's wo...

2015 is going well. I'm in front of a fire with Breaking The Code: Westminster Diaries  by Gyles Brandreth, which is the most candid par...

I got a few calls this evening to talk about Joe Cocker. I don't really have anything pat I wanted to say and I wouldn't have had ti...

Went to an interesting Christmas lunch the other day. The venue was a pub overlooking the Thames at Barnes. Two long tables were set in an u...

Taking to Martin Kelner about the Bee Gees the other day it struck me that successful bands owe their success to two qualities. One's mu...

Stories here , there and everywhere about turmoil at venerable American magazine The New Republic . Like all magazines described as venera...

"Neil hires some of the best musicians in the world and has 'em play as stupid as they possibly can." That's the late Na...

The Staple Singers made their best records between 1970 and 1972 for the Stax label.  They were produced by Stax President Al Bell, who was ...

I was talking to Joanna Cohen about the picture on the left when I was in Gateshead recently for the Radio Three Festival Of Free Thinkin...

Imagine you're an ambitious young manager/fitness coach/scout and you're approached by Tottenham. You might be mildly flattered by...

I knew Serial would be good before I actually heard it because word reached me from the right places. I knew I'd hear it eventually ...

It says this is from 1971, but I actually think it was recorded in December 1970 at KCET in Los Angeles as part of what's known as the ...

Olenka Frenkiel is forthright about why she left BBC Current Affairs. When they decide you're too old, she says, they starve you of wo...

“About 100 million people checked us out, one or two or three tracks, but about 30 million people liked the whole album. That took us 30 ye...

Carly Simon wrote "Anticipation" in 1971 while waiting for Cat Stevens to arrive for their first date, if date's the word yo...

"Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. " This is...

Sometimes cases on wheels are necessary; more often they're pulled by people who seem to think they're too fabulous to carry anyth...