Christopher Bray
Articles by Christopher Bray
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Music
Big truths, small lies
- 19 February 2007
Tony Visconti, the autobiography: Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn boy
Tony Visconti HarperCollins, 400pp, £18.99
ISBN 0007229445
Books
Pure escapism
- 05 February 2007
The Secret Life of Houdini: the making of America's first superhero
William Kalush and Larry Sloman Simon & Schuster, 592pp, £18.99
ISBN 184739082X
Film
To have and have not
- 08 January 2007
From Bogart and Bacall to Brad and Angelina, Hollywood relationships have always reflected the romantic values to which we aspire
Books
Naughty but nice
- 04 December 2006
The Life of Kingsley Amis
Zachary Leader Jonathan Cape, 996pp, £25
ISBN 0224062271
Books
Wizards of Oz
- 09 October 2006
Things I Didn’t Know
Robert Hughes Harvill Secker, 395pp, £25
ISBN 1846550149
North Face of Soho: unreliable memoirs (volume IV)
Clive James Picador, 264pp, £17.99
ISBN 0330481282
At the height of the 1960s, Australia's cleverest men
hit London in a haze of art, drugs and fiery critical prose
Politics
Swinging on solid ground
- 14 August 2006
Despite the hippies and the happenings, the Sixties were less radical than we think. Christopher Bray revisits a decade in which only the privileged put on their glad rags
Arts & Culture
The sound of music
- 10 July 2006
- 3 comments
Bernard Herrmann's soundtracks proved too good for Alfred Hitchcock
Arts & Culture
The giant boy
- 05 June 2006
Orson Welles: hello Americans
Simon Callow Jonathan Cape, 507pp, £25
ISBN 0224038532
