FINAL REEL FOR GREAT MAN OF FILM By Norman Warwick Sir Alan Parker was twice Oscar-nominated for best director, for 1978’s Midnight Express and for 1988’s Mississippi Burning. While the director’s subject matter was eclectic, he did return frequently to the musical form: His films Bugsy Malone, Fame, Pink Floyd The Wall, The Commitments and […]
NEVER A GEEK By Norman Warwick It all started, I guess when I was eight years old and my godparent, ´Auntie´ Jennifer, who lived over the mountains from us in Sheffield sent me a book as a birthday present. I could tell by the shape and the weight and the wrapping that it was a […]
WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SPEAK OF DYLAN by Norman Warwick What people mean when they speak of Dylan can be as difficult to decipher as are his own lyrics. Usually what is said about him, or even to him, is agendised: Questions are cleverly phrased so as to try to draw out not the […]
VISIONS OF SIN: By Norman Warwick I had emigrated to take up residency here on Lanzarote only a month earlier when I watched in horror the on-line news footage that showed that I had lost the thousands of books and cds I had left in the not so capable hands of my brother. It wasn´t […]
TANGLED UP IN THE BLUES part 3 Sidetracks & Detours´ Dylan week By Norman Warwick with Steve Bewick This episode of the Sidetracks & Detours Dylan serial leads us Beyond The Blues, offering us a glimpse of Robert Johnson, the legendary blues man accused believed by many to have made a deal with the devil […]
INVESTIGATING MURDER MOST FOUL Norman Warwick & Steve Bewick examine the epic Dylan track It might seem surprising that the names of so many jazz artists have been brought in for questioning about a Murder Most Foul, the song in which Bob Dylan seeks to identify why the assassination of John F Kennedy was plotted […]
DEALING WITH THE DEVIL By Norman Warwick It is perhaps surprising that a phrase that so succinctly captures the emotions of the blues should have been coined not by some old bluesman but instead by an under-rated young folk singer-writer. Arguably one of the least-remembered of the names who contributed to the so called folk […]
THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS By Norman Warwick Because of a recent hack-attack, we have a new e mail contact address of normanwarwick55@gmail.com where you can now contact us with any comments or enquiries or to submit for consideration any articles of your own you might like us to include on our pages. We […]
BEETHOVEN: A LIFE IN NINE PIECES A biography by Laura Tunbridge News by Norman Warwick Beethoven – A Life in Nine Pieces is a cleverly titled new book that builds the life of the composer and musician from nine works. This sets his achievements in their historical context without losing sight and sound of the […]
PROMS ADAPT TO PANDEMIC By Norman Warwick Mark Savage, BBC music reporter, recently posted an article on line at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/384LXFP6B13d4q2GnLx8HGy/unveiling-the-2020-bbc-proms detailing how the BBC Proms are currently devising multiple programmes for each of their concerts projected for the 2020 proms. This is partly because of there is still an area of considerable doubt about how […]
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: 7 / 12 / 25 classical, jazz, folk, rock, americana; songwriters & invisible angels7th December 2025 - 7:00 am
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A LITTLE BUNDLE OF SUMMER. sidetracks & detours 3rd September 2025 featuring Jazz Artist, Jenny Bray. Broadcaster and writer, Steve Bewick, Expo Folk and Sound Roots3rd September 2025 - 7:00 am