Music & Theatre Mark Ellen on The B-52’s: “A crisp cartoon of sound and vision” From the Long Players series: writers on their most cherished albums. By Mark Ellen
The Kinks frontman Ray Davies: an imprisoned rock legend or just plain mean? The title of veteran rock writer Johnny Rogan's biography Ray Davies: a Complicated Life may be something of an understatement. By Mark Ellen
Excess all areas: the pageantry and farce of the Fleetwood Mac story If you ever thought the laid-back vocals of “Dreams” sounded as if they had been recorded by a naked… By Mark Ellen
Red, white and blues: The History of Rock’n’Roll in Ten Songs This ambitiously-titled new work eschews the blunt logic of most rock scholarship, and instead charges down a particular path… By Mark Ellen