Not me in the photo but my friend from boyhood, Pete Sixsmith, who each year forgets the decades he toiled in the classrooms and serves the children of the North East as Father Christmas. Pete has contributed superbly to Salut!... Read more →
For two special editions of Cover Story, Salut! Live's series on different versions of the same songs, I am in the hands of a good friend Frank Gallagher, an exceptional musician and musical producer I first met through his work... Read more →
Roll up for the 32nd instalment in my series Cover Story , which looks at different versions of the same songs ... Why am I even bothering with Fairytale of New York? As good a Christmas song as you'll encounter,... Read more →
Buy this book at the Salut! Live Amazon link here This has just appeared at another of my sites, Salut!. It is the promised Robb Johnson follow-up to his 2007 epic on Johnny Hallyday, reproduced here after news broke of... Read more →
Click this caption to buy this and other Johnny Hallyday publications at Salut! Live's Amazon link The French Elvis? Not quite. A French Cliff? Surely not. But when I awoke to news of the death at 74 of Johnny Hallyday,... Read more →
"The defendant shall stand. You have been convicted of serious offences and it is my duty to pass a sentence that serves as a deterrent. You shall be taken to a lawful place of punishment and made to listen non-stop... Read more →
