Author: Paul Gallagher

In 2014, Scotland held a referendum on whether to be an independent nation again or remain part of the UK. Like all binary referenda it…

When William Burroughs met Francis Bacon a lot of tea was drunk, cigarettes smoked, a few secrets shared but very little was revealed about the…

Rock Hudson was killing time waiting for that one big role to come along to change it all. He was making money, sure, lotsa money,…

What are you gonna do when you’re on the back slice of life wondering where the fuck your dreams have all gone? Are you still…

Marc Bolan dressed to the left. Sometime in the 1970s, an intrepid BBC reporter posited the question What is it about today’s pop stars that…

Marc Bolan said that from an early age he felt he was different from everyone else (don’t we all, dearie…). He believed, like say Churchill,…

Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt were a wife and husband partnership briefly famous in Germany during the early 1920s for their wild, expressionist dance performances…

In 1983, Dexy’s Midnight Runners’ frontman Kevin Rowland managed to get his band booted off their prestigious support gig on David Bowie’s Serious Moonlight tour.…

BLAM!!! Fifty years ago, the rules of engagement changed. On Thursday May 15th 1969, police opened fire with shotguns on mostly peaceful, unarmed student demonstrators…

October 5th 2006: Sparks played the ABC, Glasgow, an old cinema that had at one point been known as the venue for Hengler’s Circus. In…