Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

#ChurchOfRockAndRoll #143 Singer, frontman, member of a band of musical alchemists, connector, catalyst, Listening Party and Merch Market pioneer, national treasure and one of the people in music most worth admiring, the mighty #TimBurgess #TheCharlatans

‘The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins’ is finally available in the UK to rent or purchase - on Amazon Prime or Apple TV (no subscription needed): •⁠ ⁠https://www.amazon.co.uk/Session-Man-Michael-Treen/dp/B0FQPSYCXH/ •⁠ ⁠https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/the-session-man/umc.cmc.1ayu6onuxyswunrbtyi9rq36i

From Sunday at the Heath Literature and Music Festival, Birmingham. A lovely day. Thanks to the festival organisers, everyone who came along - great to chat to many afterwards and to the wonderful @petepaphides.bsky.social 😊🧡🎻

💛💛💛 Thank you The Heath Bookshop #Birmingham #TheHeathLiteratureandMusicFesival

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So great to catch up with @kevadams.bsky.social & Steve Shaw (Brennan) 🎻 after the brilliant Heath Bookshop Literature & Music Festival today 📚😊🧡☀️ #DexysMidnightRunners #WhatsSheLike

Tomorrow- Sunday! ☀️ Birmingham - so many music memories. Music college, Dexys, Too-Rye-Ay, Don’t Stand Me Down, The Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony - to name just a few. I’ll be chatting with Pete Paphides about some of these. Hope to see you there x

Tomorrow- Sunday! ☀️ Birmingham - so many music memories. Music college, Dexys, Too-Rye-Ay, Don’t Stand Me Down, The Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony - to name just a few. I’ll be chatting with Pete Paphides about some of these. Hope to see you there x

Looking forward to chatting with Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social at this fabulous Literature and Music Festival in Birmingham - where my pop career began in 1982! Hope to see you there 😊🎻🧡

Looking forward to chatting with Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social at this fabulous Literature and Music Festival in Birmingham - where my pop career began in 1982! Hope to see you there 😊🎻🧡

Excellent article by Helen Barrett. Couldn’t agree more. So glad of a few years Art History study as part of my Humanities degree.

Howard Hodgkin. ‘In A Public Garden’ Pitzhanger Gallery. Totally gorgeous 🧡

Free 10-week art-history course at the Courtauld for state-school pupils this spring. www.arthistorylinkup.org/programmes/h...

Anna Ancher’s work is currently showing @dulwichgallery.bsky.social Stunning art. Beautiful use of light. Her story is very interesting. The exhibition finishes soon 🏃‍♀️

Happy birthday Yoko Ono @yokoono.bsky.social

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Wishing everyone a LOVELY weekend. Happy Valentines Day ❤️

Congratulations Matt Weston! 🥇 🇬🇧 Sensational performances 🤩

Excellent documentary about Little Richard and his huge influence on other artists. Great footage & interviews. Available via @bbciplayer.bsky.social

LOVE Hand Painted Cotton Shift Dress, 1960s #RobertIndiana

A wonderful article from 2019 about Jimmy Miller by his sister Judith. The cover of a forthcoming biography about the Stones has prompted me to share this again. I had the honour of being in the studio with Jimmy for a day when Dexys were trying out producers which I write about in my memoir.

This is out in April. By Bob Spitz. Cover from Exile On Main Street era.

From the scrapbook Sounds 1982 📷 Adrian Boot #DexysMidnightRunners

RIP LaMonte McLemore 💛 Let The Sunshine In ☀️ 2.22 one of the greatest song transitions

Fabulous banjo by Tony Hicks. Great song 🧡

Enjoy your weekend everyone 😊💜

On This Day in Music 1949 - RCA Records issued the first ever 45rpm single, the invention of this size record made jukeboxes possible.

Wishing all a merry Février and blessings for Imbolc. 🖼️ Grasset

Magnificent documentary by writer (and one time New York taxi driver) Michael Goldfarb, about Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, 70s New York and the transformed city of today www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BREAKING | Alcaraz beats Djokovic at Australian Open final to complete career grand slam and make tennis history

Have a wonderful weekend everybody 🩷

The thrill receiving a postcard 🧡

A delightful escape from the world for an afternoon! Brilliant puppetry. Gillian Lynne Theatre, Drury Lane.

Superb exhibition at Two Temple Place, London - ‘The Weight of Being’ Vulnerability, Resilience & Mental Health in Art. John Wilson McCracken ‘Man in Pub’ & ‘Moving Torso’ Robert Olley ‘The Coal Bandits’ Geraint Evans’A Zen Garden’

Jessica Rankin ‘in the air/a memory’ @whitecube.com Paint and embroidered thread Worth getting close 🧵 🪡 🎨 💛

Have as great weekend everyone! 🩵

PLR royalties day (public library loans) First time. Proud my book is borrowed. 😊 Dad took me to the library every week, I took my sons & I hear that my 6 month old grandson is now a regular 🧡📚

Wishing Dolly Parton the happiest of birthdays. ‘Jolene’ from Glastonbury 2014 🔽🎶❤️❤️❤️

Wishing you a happy weekend! 💛 Wassily Kandinsky Murnau - The Garden II (1910)

‘Listen To This.’ The 3rd film by Jack Hazan. Kevin sang live for this. Extraordinarily powerful. I love how Jack shot the band at the end.

‘Knowledge of Beauty.’ The second film by Jack Hazan shot in County Mayo in the West of Ireland using 35mm film which Jack said made the scenery look more lush than normal. About the 3 films Jack said, ‘I listened to what Kevin had to say and tried to interpret what he wanted. I didn’t betray him.’

‘This Is What She’s Like’ Dexys Midnight Runners. 1985. 1 of 3 short films directed by Jack Hazan - ‘These films were quite different, they went against the grain’. Jack also directed ‘A Bigger Splash’ - David Hockney & ‘Rude Boy’ - The Clash. I’d love to see TIWSL on a big screen.

My favourite song by one of my favourite bands. 12 minutes of pure magic

‘This Is What She’s Like’ Dexys Midnight Runners. 1985. 1 of 3 short films directed by Jack Hazan - ‘These films were quite different, they went against the grain’. Jack also directed ‘A Bigger Splash’ - David Hockney & ‘Rude Boy’ - The Clash. I’d love to see TIWSL on a big screen.

Marlow Moss (1889-1958), a painter, who influenced/rivalled the famous male artist Mondrian, who history has largely forgotten #womensart www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...