Donald Clarke

• Deaths Rock 'n' pop.
• June 23, 2010, 22:07

Farewell then, Frank Sidebottom. If you don’t know, Mr Sidebottom — and you really should — he was a northern entertainer with a papier maché head of genuinely macrocephalic proportions. Never an enormous star, he nonetheless cheered up the 1980s …

• Deaths Rock 'n' pop.
• April 9, 2010, 17:59

It was sad to hear of Malcolm McLaren’s passing. As manager of, first, The New York Dolls and, later, creator of the monster that was The Sex Pistols, he proved himself to be a great English impresario in the mode …

• Deaths Rock 'n' pop.
• March 18, 2010, 01:03

Good grief. You go away for three days and all hell breaks loose. Winslet bolts from Mendes. Peter Graves dies. Jack Kirby’s relatives try to set up a rival Spider-Man franchise. And it transpires that Don Cheadle is set to …

• Rock 'n' pop.
• January 29, 2010, 23:27

As it’s the weekend allow me to recommend  a tune to accompany your progress through brunch and advertising supplements. Comic rock is rarely comic and it almost never rocks. The one notable exception is the oeuvre of the imperishable Birkenhead …

• Rock 'n' pop.
• November 28, 2009, 01:23

I’m off for a few days holiday, so, though I will still be moderating comments, there may be more delay than usual. Apologies. Hey. Guess where I’m going. Cat got your tongue, Karla? Please keep making your contributions to the …

• Rock 'n' pop. Way off topic
• November 24, 2009, 23:17

Have I got your attention? I’m fairly sure I believe this. I’m less sure I believe that the Shoppies version of Always on My Mind is better than the Pogues’ Fairy Tale of New York, but, nonetheless, it is a …