The cynic in me - and cynicism occupies a large part of my soul - says "best Christmas song" is a bit like "best trainspotter" or, worse, "best thing about medieval dentistry". But I'm not entirely Scrooge. I like John... Read more →
Salut! Live wishes as a happy Christmas and prosperous a new year as our masters will allow. It's been a strange year for this site, exhilaration at some astonishing statistics recording many hundreds and sometimes even thousands of daily visitors... Read more →
Eric Alper -'freelance music publicist. SiriusXM host, shameless idealist, lifelong musicaholic', he says though with more upper case than I'd allow - is the Twitter master of the simple musical question that can reliably be expected to draw hundreds or... Read more →
June 2021: not really an update. I have been too busy planning and effecting my escape from fortress Britain to France to spend much time on updating Salut! Live. So a simple reminder of a contentious preference, published 10 years... Read more →
CLICK ANYWHERE ON THIS PARAGRAPH TO EXPLORE THE FULL COVER STORY SERIES - COMPARING DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SAME SONGS AND SOMETIMES TUNES August 2021 u-turn: Salut! Live makes no claims of great consistency. Like most people, I change my... Read more →
Before the pandemic, I was pondering the future of Salut! Live and questioning whether it even had one. I had already transferred my football site, Salut! Sunderland, to a new owner because, partly because the cost and trouble of keeping... Read more →
Today, as we have relentlessly and quite rightly been reminded, is Bob Dylan's 80th birthday. A woman he once loved, Joan Baez, passed the same milestone in January and a British singer and musician from whom he learned a little,... Read more →
