Woodstock
Reissue CDs Weekly: Stephen StillsSunday, 24 March 2013Stephen Stills: Carry OnSprawling across these four discs is the curious saga of the megastar who fell to earth. From early 1967, when Stephen Stills's song "For What It's Worth" became a Top 10 hit for LA folk-rockers Buffalo Springfield, to... Read more... |
CD of the Year: Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Psychedelic PillThursday, 03 January 2013The world goes apeshit when the Stones manage to drag themselves out for a few gigs after half a decade or so of indolence, but Neil Young rightly gets a bit prickly when people accuse him of making a "comeback". He tends to snarl that "he's never... Read more... |
Nigel Kennedy's Polish AdventureMonday, 14 June 2010Brilliant though it was to be shooting an Imagine film for BBC One, we did experience the occasional tremor of foreboding about making a programme with Nigel Kennedy. We (that's me and director Frank Hanly) had a bit of previous with Nigel - I'd... Read more... |
Filming Woodstock: Fact, Fiction, FantasySaturday, 07 November 2009The most famous rock festival in history celebrated its 40th anniversary this summer in an orgy of nostalgia. Michael Wadleigh's Academy Award-winning 1970 documentary Woodstock was re-released, the media were flooded with reminiscences and analyses... Read more... |