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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

Michael Foot: the last, lost, Labour leader

Persona Non Viagra: What Happened When Oliver Stone Met Fidel Castro And Discussed Guns, Dictatorship and Brigitte Bardot

Punk's Dead # 357

Basic Instinct: Paul Verhoeven, Sharon Stone, and Those Giblets in Full

Jacob Aaron Estes: Mean Creek director, moralist in a rowing boat

Laura Cantrell: Nashville girl, Wall Street banker, apple of John Peel's eye

Jonathan Richman: rebellious straight-man, Warhol fan, insect-lover, roadrunner (but not in jogging shoes)

Interview with Robert Forster, Go-Between, Cult Hero, Former Postcard Records Recording Artiste

RIP Wee Jinky, Your Rowboat to Paradise Awaits: Jimmy Johnstone 1944-2006

Mr Ivor Cutler: a small memory of a pregnant pause

Spike Milligan: Goon, Loon, Manic Depressive Comic Genius

Interview with Rachel Weisz; mummy-hunter, Elvis-fan, constant gardener

Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz vs Thomas Vinterberg, director of Festen