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This April marks the 150th anniversary of the assassination of American president Abraham Lincoln. On April 14th 1865, the 56 year old president had been watching a play at Ford’s theatre with his wife when John Wilkes Booth, an actor…

60 years ago, one of the most influential and self-destructive jazz artists pushed his body to the limit and died at the age of 34. Charlie Parker was in the Stanhope Hotel in New York City on March 12 1955 when he took his last breath. He…

It seems Mumford & Sons are having their ‘electric’ moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW6SkvErFEE New album Wilder Mind comes out on May 4 minus the usual sound we are so used to hearing from them. Record number three…

Talking Oscar predictions is an easy game and as we roll into another awards season, bookmakers are already in overdrive regarding the odds on this year's Oscar winners but such hotly tipped predictions do not always come true. In 2012,…

Released in 1972, Van Morrison's sixth studio album would gift a song that stands to this day as a great example of the stream of consciousness style that runs through the majority of his work. Taken from the record of the same name, 'Saint…

Bob Dylan first appeared in 1961 at Gerde’s Folk City in Greenwich Village while later that year a review in The New York Times described him as ‘Resembling a cross between a choir boy and a beatnik.’ This was a time and place which saw…

January 13th 1968. Johnny Cash walked through the gates of one of the most notorious prisons in the United States. Cash was present not as an inmate, but to record an album that would become one of his most famous pieces of work. Johnny…

As we slide into another new year, we should pause and take note, that this new year is a special one, this new year is the one in which we will all sport self-tying Nikes, self drying-jackets and jaunt around the place on hover boards.…

Celebrating A Very Gritty Christmas Twenty seven years ago a gloriously gritty festive song was unleashed on the world. The Pogues' ‘Fairy Tale of New York’ violated the December pop chart of 1987 and even though it failed to reach the…

75 years ago, on December 15th 1939, Gone with the Wind had its premiere in Atlanta, Georgia. The Mayor, William B. Hartsfield, declared the day a state holiday and up to 300,000 people lined the streets on that cold…