Jimi Hendrix
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The White Stripes: Greatest Hits review – rowdy gathering of rock, roll and everything in between
- Music
- December 4, 2020, 06:00
Every great band with great fans, notes Jack White, should have a Greatest Hits album. And so the first compilation of The White Stripes is issued, bu(...)

Remembering Jimi Hendrix 50 years on: the guitar god and the Irish connection
- Music
- September 18, 2020
On the landing of Dave Tiger Taylor’s home in Crumlin, there is a European tour poster of a kind familiar to most rock fans. It’s a psychedelic repres(...)

Hey Jimi – An Irishman’s Diary on Jimi Hendrix
- Opinion
- September 14, 2020, 20:15
Fifty years ago this week Jimi Hendrix joined the 27 Club – that melancholy list of rock stars who died at that age. It wasn’t known as that when Hen(...)

Little Richard: Not the inventor, but the architect of rock‘n’roll
- Music
- May 9, 2020, 18:47
Richard Penniman, better known as Little Richard, who combined the sacred shouts of the black church and the profane sounds of the blues to create som(...)

Dancing with the Stars has hit Father Ted levels of farce
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 16, 2020, 22:34
Sweaty palms, racing pulses, melting heats. Either it’s the first meeting of a new Fine Gael-Fianna Fáil coalition or we’ve reached Valentine’s Week o(...)

Simon and Garfunkel for people who don’t like Simon and Garfunkel
- Culture
- January 25, 2020, 05:00
I’ll tell you what I hate (again). I hate the “[X] for people who don’t like [X]” construction. Nothing is more likely to win me round to the merits o(...)

Beck: ‘U2 had the best audiences of anyone I’ve opened for’
- Music
- November 16, 2019, 06:00
If there was ever a musician who is capable of whipping something novel out of the unexpected, it’s Beck Hansen. The Californian has spent his career (...)

Cara Delevingne: My favourite thing about Ireland? The people
- Fashion
- October 28, 2019, 06:00
Those sooty eyes and bushy eyebrows, not to speak of her mischievous sense of humour, outspoken opinions and 43 million Instagram followers, help keep(...)

Peace, love and wilful misunderstanding
- Culture
- March 23, 2019, 06:00
Anybody keen on celebrating the 50th anniversary of Woodstock deserves whatever comes their way. Fighting dysentery to the strains of the Paul Butter(...)

Paul Allen: The reclusive billionaire who changed the tech world
- Technology
- October 18, 2018, 05:00
Had I ever met Paul Allen? Following the announcement of Allen’s death at 65 this week from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, an editor wanted to know if I’d ev(...)