From Shakin’ Stevens to the Shakin’ Pyramids, ALWYN TURNER offers a guide to the best of British revivalist rockabilly. Continue reading
Author Archives: Alwyn Turner
History cops: George Gently pt 1
ALWYN TURNER’s episode guide to Peter Flannery’s 1960s cop show. Continue reading
Biddu: the album
ALWYN TURNER on Britain’s first disco-king, with music from Carl Douglas and Geno Washington to the Playthings and the Electric Dolls. Continue reading
Buddy Holly: the British album
Twelve British cover versions of Buddy Holly songs, selected by ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
History cops: The Mind of Mr J. G. Reeder
‘I have a criminal mind.’ ALWYN TURNER on the TV version of Edgar Wallace’s investigator J. G. Reeder, ‘a Jazz Age Columbo’. Continue reading
Sherlock on screen
Who was the best Sherlock Holmes? There’s only one way to find out. ALWYN TURNER watches ten versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Continue reading
1977: the album
From Bryan Ferry to Roogalator, ALWYN TURNER compiles an album’s worth of singles from 1977. Continue reading
Have you heard… Alan Price
ALWYN TURNER celebrates the mid-1970s solo work of ex-Animal Alan Price. Continue reading
Bill Oddie
ALWYN TURNER on Bill Oddie and the making of ‘The Funky Gibbon’. Continue reading
Sutch is life
ALWYN TURNER confesses to having written the Official Monster Raving Loony Party manifesto for Screaming Lord Sutch. Continue reading
Keir Starmer: an obituary
As another prime minister bites the dust, ALWYN TURNER bids a less than fond farewell. Continue reading
‘I could whip you’: the Falklands War
ALWYN TURNER on the political and cultural fall-out from the Falklands War, from Alan Bennett to Del-Boy. Continue reading
