Liffey For Shane McGowan (1957 - 2023) Broken poet, glorious mess, Penny-whistle novelist, Dublin's Boy. Bellow at the sun, serenade the...

Sinead O'Connor (1966 - 2023) Sinead O'Connor was as mighty, pure and fearless an artist as the world has seen. We saw all she was: the...

Black page black with words inked from red and gold, the black falling, black rising embossing, growing ripe like a tumour, growling like...

When people chuck about words like 'legend' or 'icon', they often do so with far too little care. But when it comes to Charlie Watts,...

Leonard Cohen spent the majority of the 1980s in the musical wilderness. He'd released quality albums and written many outstanding songs,...

Most of the reviews of Rough and Rowdy Ways I've read have offered a great deal of affirmation and a good deal of insight. One, however,...

I've resisted writing about Murder Most Foul since its release despite feeling a strong desire to do so, because it felt too daunting a...

Bob Dylan’s epic song “Dignity” is easily enjoyed – if you’re a fan of Bob Dylan – but not so easily understood. It is a long, complex...

BOB DYLAN’S ‘CROSS THE GREEN MOUNTAIN In a lifetime of writing and performing music, Bob Dylan has constructed a considerable body of...

The Fifth Beatle is no more. The world owes Sir George Martin an extraordinary debt of gratitude. If it were not for him, the musical...

Leonard Cohen, one the greatest poets of all time, has left our world. Even though he was both 82 and in increasingly poor health, this...

Chuck Berry (1926 - 2017) Chuck Berry was a prick. It's fairly well documented. He was busted (and jailed) for tax evasion, filmed women...

Malcolm Young (1953 - 2017) Malcolm Young is arguably the most important musician this country has ever produced. Big call? Yes. But...

In 2005, twenty years after he convened Live Aid, Bob Geldof turned his his attentions to eradicating third world debt, and his target...