DOLLY MIXTURES AND SONGS by Norman Warwick Despite her own song-writing talents, Dolly Parton has, nevertheless, lent her distinct vocals to plenty of cover recordings of material by her fellow song-smiths. The Tennessee native has recorded and performed dozens of hits by other famous artists in the last 50-plus years, including everyone from The Beatles […]
FIRST AID KIT CONTAINS HEALING MUSIC By Norman Warwick As a teenager, when my love of the country music that was to become Americana was my guilty, and very much secret, pleasure I was too embarrassed to admit to being a country and western fan lest I be damned by the preconceptions of others about […]
VERY EXPENSIVE BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY´S BY Norman Warwick Breakfast at Tiffany’s was a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and written by George Axelrod, loosely based on Truman Capote‘s 1958 novella of the same name. Starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen to my generation always Ged Clampett of The Beverley Hillbillies), Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney, the film was initially […]
DYNAMITE BLOWS UP THE CHARTS by Norman Warwick, and Sidetracks & Detours global pop music correspondent, Olivia Lee Warwick The members of South Korean boy band BTS (left) could become $54 million richer when their record label goes public. Big Hit Entertainment — the Seoul-based music firm behind the world’s hottest K-pop act — revealed […]
´´It is time put armed conflict in lockdown.
folk-lore terror shoves up against the contemporary and eternal terro of domestic and sexual abuse.
FAMILIAR NAME & A SENSATIONAL SOUND by Norman Warwick Lola Lennox (left) is a British singer, songwriter, and model. She is the sister of British fashion model Tali Lennox, and daughter of Scottish singer Annie Lennox and Israeli film producer Uri Fruchtmann. She has collaborated with Will Gregory of Goldfrapp on a tv soundtrack from […]
music makers new to Sidetracks: Kanneh Mason FAMILY HARMONY by Norman Warwick In a recent post here on Sidetracks & Detours, we previewed how the book industry is trying to ground lost to coronavirus by a huge publication list for the Autumn to Christmas season. One of that record number of nearly six hundred books […]
BEWICK THE RHYMER By Norman Warwick When I sat in recently on a conversation between Steve Bewick, jazz writer, musician, and recording artist John Ellis I was fascinated to hear them talking about the development of jazz and the role played in its mutual development with the beat poets and, later, rap artists and there […]
WHO WILL BE THE SPITTING IMAGES ? by Norman Warwick Spitting Images was famous throughout its eighteen previous series for its mockery of various famous figures. Recently, new puppets of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) and others have been revealed as a ´teaser´ for a new series (the first since 1996) of Spitting images, […]
