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29 Mar 2026

More Musings on My Time in the Music Business

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  The World's Most Flexible Record Label   Original logo design by Chris Morton     I.    The independent record label founded by Dave R...
28 Mar 2026

In Memory of Noelia Castillo Ramos

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Noelia Castillo Ramos (2000 - 2026)     All she desired was the brief experience of a life free from suffering  so that pain is forgotten i...
27 Mar 2026

More Tales from Charisma Records: Memories of Steve Weltman and Shelly Clark

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  First Floor, 90 Wardour Street, Soho, London W1.  Tel: 01 434 1351  I.    Charisma Records was a small independent label founded in 1969 b...
24 Mar 2026

On Being (and Not Being) Leonard Zelig

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Stephen Alexander and Leonard Zelig  (SA/2026)     I.    Zelig  (1983) may not be my favourite Woody Allen movie, but it's the one that ...
23 Mar 2026

In Memory of the Land Girls (and My Aunt Edna)

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Edna Hall: Portrait of a Land Girl  (SA/2026)   I.    The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created by the Boa...
22 Mar 2026

Does Anyone Else Remember When Trafalgar Square Was a Happy Place?

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Feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square  (c. 1971)     I.   Six days later and still  the row rumbles on about the Ramadan prayer event held...
20 Mar 2026

Dark Thoughts on the Light House

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48 Berwick St., London, W1  lighthousesoho.com     I.    To the Light House!   For Virginia Woolf, this phrase didn't merely reference a...
19 Mar 2026

Turning a Beady Eye on the Work of Liza Lou

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The artist Liza Lou  Photo by Mick Haggerty  ropac.net   'Somehow, I too must discover the smallest constituent element, the cell of my ...
17 Mar 2026

The Cat Will See You Now

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    I.    For the past ten weeks I've had a pain in the lower-left abdominal region. Well, I say a pain, but it's more like a cramp;...
15 Mar 2026

Calimocho: On the Politics of Wine and Cola (Redux)

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Roland Barthes & Andy Warhol George Costanza & Jeremy Usbourne        I.    Recently, I was at an event with an American friend who ...