FOOTBALL, FILMS and FABULOUS MUSIC AT THE DOMINION OF OPINION
British Cinema has a fine tradition with regard to the heist movie – a quick trawl through the memory vault, so to speak, brings to mind such excellent films as ‘The Lavender Hill Mob’ (1949), ‘The Long Arm’ (1956), ‘Robbery’ (1967),…
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If proof was needed regarding the unrelenting nature of the Sky Bet Championship, the Pride Park meeting this week between Derby County and Blackburn Rovers provided all the necessary evidence. Despite ending goalless it was far from a drab encounter, Derby…
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Crosby: avant-garde troubadour, Stills: guitarist extraordinaire; Nash, sensitive singer-songwriter, Young, a Dylan for the 70s
‘The Song Is Over’ is propelled to a rousing conclusion by drumming from Keith Moon that is extraordinary even by his standards.
‘Tapestry’ (1971) is a superbly sequenced album that reads like a well-plotted novel.’
Bobby Moore’s cold-shoulder treatment at the hands of The FA in the years after he finished playing was shameful.
‘Sadly, Elvis gave up on everything beyond Vegas and the tired old standards he was churning out night after night.’
Throughout my teenage years of the early and mid seventies I could often be found, by the side of my Dad, at Molineux on the opening day of a new football season. Among the fixtures that loom large in my memory…
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Look how good the football was in the 1970s: NEIL YOUNG: After the Goal Rush.
‘GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD’ is the most consistent and engrossing work Elton John has ever produced.