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I wrote an extended version of my interview with Jane Birkin in which she talked about Serge Gainsbourg, motherhood, and the subversive legacy of Je T'Aime. https://open.substack.com/pub/alastairmckay/p/histoire-de-jane-birkin-an-english?r=695tp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Lifeguard, Save Me From Life: Bona Drag and the Professional Misery Of Steven Patrick Morrissey

Goodbye Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel RIP. Your band, Big Star, was like The Beatles, if the Beatles Had Come From Tennessee

If Captain Beefheart Had Come From Glenrothes He Would Have Sounded Like Good And Gone (But I Like To Think He Wouldn't Have Tried To Drown Me In The Municipal Swimming Baths)

A remembrance of my friend, Alan Ruddock, who died yesterday

Carl Barât:: The Libertine Who Fell To Earth

Banksy, Art Fags, And The Jealous Wrath Of Old Skool Graffiti Writers

Steampunk Cyclegeography - The Wayward Journey Of David Byrne

Omar, The Wire, and the Baltimore Fairytale of Fran Boyd and Donnie Andrews

Dark Eyes And A Sardonic Smile: Patti Smith On Working With Bob Dylan

The Actor As Wrestler As Prostitute: Mickey Rourke Throws His Ego On The Canvas