Do you remember Papa’s Got a Brand New Bagpipe? ALWYN TURNER does. Continue reading
Author Archives: Alwyn Turner
Imperial fiction: Bully, Fag and Hero
ALWYN TURNER on Charles Mansford’s ‘most unpleasant’ school story, published in 1896. Continue reading
Revive 45: September 1975
ALWYN TURNER looks at the charts from 45 years ago and finds Mike Batt, Roger Whittaker and Leo Sayer – but mostly it’s Kenny. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: The Secret of the League
ALWYN TURNER on ‘a fabulous book, sometimes thriller, sometimes satire’ from 1909. Continue reading
Revive 45: August 1975
Delilah, Barbados and the rough end of a pineapple – the charts were odd in August 1975, reflects ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
The Ambling Alp in London
Italian boxer Primo Carnera got namechecked in the 1930s by PG Wodehouse and Sandy Powell. ALWYN TURNER explains why. Continue reading
Novelist MPs #1: Robert Kilroy-Silk
From 1983, it’s Kilroy’s dystopian vision of 2020. ALWYN TURNER has a read. Continue reading
Imperial nonfiction: Boys’ Heroes
ALWYN TURNER reads the books that inspired his granddad. Continue reading
‘Smashing things’
Do you remember when the Left was split between generations? ALWYN TURNER does. Continue reading
Revive 45: July 1975
ALWYN TURNER revisits more of the music of his childhood: 10cc, Mud, Gary Glitter, the Top of the Pops Orchestra… Continue reading
Revive 45: bonus trax 2
Mike Batt, Paper Lace, Mr Big, the Surprise Sisters & many more. ALWYN TURNER rounds up some failed 45s from 1975. Continue reading
Revive 45: May 1975
Can it be that it was all so simple then? ALWYN TURNER looks at the charts of 45 years ago, and tries to remember. Continue reading
