Joe Breen
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Barry Gibb and Friends: Greenfields review – Game approach but doesn’t match originals
- Music
- January 8, 2021, 06:00
There is a wonderful moment near the end of the fascinating new documentary The Bee Gees – How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (Sky Documentaries) that sp(...)

Bruce Springsteen: Letter to You review – Sublime meditations of loss, love, life and death
- Music
- October 22, 2020, 06:00
Your first guitar. Your first band. Your first songs. Your first record. When you are young, every first is an unforgettable thrill. And when the arc (...)

Bruce Springsteen’s 2020: I swam. I kept busy. I made an album
- Music
- October 17, 2020, 05:00
The Boss talks about his lockdown experience, reuninting with the E-Street band and his new record Letter To You Bruce Springsteen is (...)

Emma Swift: Blonde on the Tracks review – Dylan with a twist
- Music
- August 14, 2020, 05:00
Bob Dylan’s ludicrously rich archive of song has been mined by the great and the good, the inept and the inane, but rarely has he been covered so tend(...)

Margo Price: That’s How Rumours Get Started – Third album packs a punch
- Music
- July 10, 2020, 05:30
Margo Price strikes almost an apologetic note in the press release for her long-awaited third album: “Take me back to the day I started trying to pain(...)

Neil Young: Homegrown review – The album that hurt too much
- Music
- June 26, 2020, 05:45
While undoubtedly better late than never, 45 years is pushing it. This album was due to land in early 1975 but Young, reeling from a painful break wit(...)

Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways review – A menacing and playful return
- Music
- June 19, 2020, 05:30
What could reasonably be expected of a 79-year-old Nobel laureate with 38 studio albums behind him, countless archive releases and a lifetime of touri(...)

Josh Okeefe: Bloomin’ review – Bob Dylan pastiche that hints at more
- Music
- May 25, 2020, 16:00
Many years ago the late British humorist Neil Innes released a single in which his character induced some discordant notes from his harmonica and acou(...)

Former ‘Irish Times’ production chief Jim Cooke dies aged 88
- Irish News
- April 19, 2020, 20:39
The death occurred at the weekend of the former director of production of The Irish Times, Jim Cooke. Mr Cooke, who was 88, played a key role in the (...)

Lucinda Williams: Good Souls Better Angels review – The tonic the world needs
- Music
- April 10, 2020, 05:00
“Because of all this crap that’s going on, it’s on the top of everybody’s minds – it’s all anybody talks about. Basically, the world’s falling apart –(...)