Bryan Ferry smashed me at table tennis Drew Corridore Gets A Lesson In Life From A Bat-Wielding Pop Star. WHEN I was a chipper, chirpier, version of the ageing rapscallion I’ve become, I had the best job in the world. It was one of those things one did to afford the books and birds so [...]
Heroes Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name – Sir Walter Scott and/or Thomas Osbert Mordaunt By Andrew E. Hall When you hear the words “hero” or “heroine”, who comes to mind? Maestro, some think music please [...]
Jimi Hendrix Stole My Jacket A big night out in the Big Apple sees Salvador Bali relieved of his jacket by a young musician named Jimmy James. In the mid ‘60s I was one of two resident DJs at the Salvation Night Club, which was one of the hot spots on West Fourth Street and [...]
Boomtown Bali All the marketing talk is about and “tranquillity” and “lush tropical vegetation” and “ancient rituals”. But Bali is on its way to becoming a city without even trying: the urbanisation of Bali is under way and nobody seems to be in charge. People fell over laughing in 2009 when the magazine Conde Nast [...]
Fads The last 50 years in 4,000 words (or the Death of a Hipster in something less). Andrew E. Hall gets it on. WE’RE going to take a little trip. No, not Timothy Leary-style, but we’ll start our trip in the decade he was famously quoted as saying: “My advice to people today is as [...]
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