RIP Terence Stamp. He was one the very best. I will be playing "Waterloo Sunset" in his honour today. ❤️

Live Aid was 40 years ago today! Hard to believe it happened so long ago. U2's "Bad" was the stand-out moment for me and my friends. ✨️ youtu.be/HvBgRSSlVBA?...

Happy 83rd birthday to the always brilliant and beautiful Sir Paul. ❤️✨️👍🙏

Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys' story reflects the best of US culture during the 20th century: the drive to creativity, representing local experience, and connecting with the wider world through music. Thank you, Brian. You channeled and manifested something truly special. ❤ ✨️🙏

Lovely! So nice to be mentioned in such illustrious company. Thank you for the acknowledgement and I'm really looking forward to reading your book, @stuartmaconie.bsky.social. I'm hearing great things!

So pleased to hear this news!!! blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/22/f...

Thanks for the positive mention of my book in this article, @ladymissbarton.bsky.social. It's disappointing, though, that you don't see me as a Beatles expert. Seems to add to the problem you are pointing out. Don't think you realised... www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Lovely news! Congratulations, Amy @smallmegapixel.bsky.social!

Do check this out if you have some time! ✨️

Wow!

The Conversation kindly asked me to write a review of David Sheff's biography of Yoko Ono. Here it is.

So sad you had to leave us, Clem. Loved your drumming and Mod style. You also seemed like the nicest guy. 💖

I can't think of a more iconic garage rock anthem than The Standells' "Dirty Water." It was wonderful to have the opportunity to see a Standells reunion show in Vegas in 2000. Very sorry to hear that Larry Tamblyn has passed away. Heartfelt condolences to his nearest and dearest. ❤️

For all my German-speaking Beatle People: A podcast called "100 Songs" produced for Austrian radio with an episode about "My Sweet Lord." Yours truly and Beatles biographer Philip Norman chime in. Link below.

Luddite teens! A very interesting article about youth who are not keen on the hyper-connection of smart phones and tech overall in everyday life. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/s...

Beat surrender. 💔 Very sad news for the Mod community today. RIP Rick Butler. www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...

Popular Music & Beatles academics: Would you like to join me as part of the editorial board for The Journal of Beatles Studies? If so, do apply! ✨️ liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/02/10/t...

adored this collection about record stores (edited by @ginanarchy.bsky.social & @feldmanbarrett.bsky.social & co.), using individual shops to pivot between local scenes & broader histories in UK, north carolina, portugal, NZ, lagos, dublin, paris, hamburg, & more. www.bloomsbury.com/us/life-deat...

Thirty years ago, a dear friend gave me Marianne Faithfull's memoir and it's not an exaggeration to say the book changed my life. Her incredible writing about the 1960s made me want to become a cultural historian about that time. Hers was an important voice. ✨️

From Indie Rock Chanteuse Christine Darling in the 20th century to Beatles Scholar Christine Feldman-Barrett in the 21st... 👇✨️💗💫 Photo 📷: Daniella Gleeson

Thanks again, Huw! Hint, Hint: I'm now here on Bluesky. 👋

Music is magical, isn't it? 💫Listening to Redd Kross on vinyl tonight just like I did when I was a teenager. The album is new but the joyful feelings are the same as back then. Really loving that the Redd Album is on red vinyl, too! Very cool. 💖

Dear Beatle People, an important question: What Beatles or Beatles-related books would you most want to see out on the market? So many great ones with cool angles have come out the last few years and there are certainly more yet to be written. What say you? 💫

Samira Ahmed's forthcoming book on A Hard Day's Night is sure to be excellent! I'll be very keen to see what she writes about the women that populate the film. I do love this scene at the club. The women look so cool and mod!

Many thanks again to @smallmegapixel.bsky.social for this excellentwriteup about my 90s band Hussy. ✨️

Hello all! I've done the thing. Am just starting to reach out to folks who I know from my other socials. Do you like it over here?