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AT THE ART OF BLACK LIVES MATTER

AT THE ART OF BLACK LIVES MATTER by Norman Warwick David Starkey (left) recently stepped into the Black Lives Matter conversation and upset everybody in what should be an absolutely incontrovertible issue but that is becoming more…
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BURLY CHASSIS BREAKS A SHOE

BURLY CHASSIS BREAKS A SHOE By Norman Warwick According to https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/ Dame Shirley Bassey is releasing her first new album in more than five years, to celebrate her 70-year career in showbiz. The album is being…
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We are the music makers: BILL MORRISSEY, a novel in three verses and a chorus

BILL MORRISSEY, a novel in three verses and a chorus By Norman Warwick Bill Morrissey: photograph by Hervé Oudet Unless you have bought any of his dozen or so albums you probably won´t have heard of Bill Morrissey. I thought for…

BEWARE A GEEK BEARING GIFTS

BEWARE A GEEK BEARING GIFTS By Norman Warwick Pete Benbow Over the last four decades or so I collected about fifty albums by two particular singer-writers, John Stewart and Townes Van Zandt. It has all been the fault  of Pete Benbow,…
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ARTISTS & CURATORS, GALLERIES & GUIDES

ARTISTS & CURATORS, GALLERIES & GUIDES Entre Islas by Ildefonso Aguilar – CIC El Almacen Curated by Estefania Camejo Review by Norman Warwick Touchstones Arts & Heritage Centre I was privileged to work with a number…
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FINAL REEL FOR GREAT MAN OF FILM

FINAL REEL FOR GREAT MAN OF FILM By Norman Warwick Sir Alan Parker 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…
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NEVER A GEEK

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…
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WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SPEAK OF DYLAN: part 5 conclusion of Sidetracks & Detours Dylan week

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…
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VISIONS OF SIN: part 4 of Sidetracks & Detours Dylan week

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…

TANGLED UP IN THE BLUES part 3 Sidetracks & Detours Dylan week

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,…