David Hepworth's blog

Watching The Lottery Winners , the self-described "mediocre indie pop band" from Leigh, Lancs at the Water Rats last night, it str...

Alan Simpson has died. He and Ray Galton wrote the great Hancock radio shows. That's him on the left. I don't really remember th...

Keep turning over in my mind something I just heard on the excellent NPR Politics podcast . If you'd suggested in the first year of Ge...

Paul Gambaccini was our guest in a particularly riveting Word In Your Ear evening at the Islington last week. He was talking about everythi...

For years now I've been thinking, why would anyone run for high office in this day and age? Some of the most effective leaders – Churc...

These are just four of the scores of different covers that Frederick Allen's "Only Yesterday" has had since it was first pu...

I was in a few West End bookshops in the week before Christmas and they were busy, as busy as I remember record shops used to be in the we...

I've no idea whether Robbie Williams' management really did sell marked-up tickets to his shows via resale sites as the BBC are clai...

We were out at lunch with old friends yesterday when we got the news Peter Sarstedt had died. I asked my friends whether the news of his d...

I didn't watch any TV on New Year's Eve but I can't get enough of the Mariah Carey story that emerged the following day. There...

This is the only thing I learned from my experience of bringing up our kids, all of whom are adults now. You can't make your childre...

Vanity Fair have tried to find out the truth about Donald Trump's claim that he and Kanye West are "old friends".  One of t...

I went to see the Neil Cowley Trio play a short gig in an underground garage this week. They did some tunes from their new album "Spac...

I was never a fan of Leon Russell's voice but as an arranger/producer/ringmaster he made a lot of great things happen. Quite a few of th...

Seemed like my whole generation of college students bought "Songs of Leonard Cohen" in 1968. Actually first of all they bought ...

Nice story here about Michael DelGuidice , a musician who went from being in a Billy Joel tribute band to being hired by Joel to play in his...

Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how J.D. Vance made it from a very unpromising background - born into family of suspicious hillbilly folk...

Maybe  A Very English Scandal  is as good as it is is because John Preston couldn't publish it until Jeremy Thorpe died in 2014. I l...

Before the internet I had to have rock reference books to do my job. If I wanted to know what year a record came out I had to look it up i...

My column about this week's radio from the Guardian Guide.