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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

Hiss Golden Messenger's Haw: A Question of Faith, Laughing In The Face of Death

Ed Bankston's Red Rippers: Viet-Boogie Recollections Of A Hell-For-Leather Military Man

Chris Boot: Magnum, photojournalism, and the flawed reality of great photography

RIP Reg Presley, Trogg, hod-carrier, maverick genius, Wild Thing

Teenage Girls! Timpani! The Strange Cult Of The Cults Percussion Ensemble

George Best: El Beatle on Drinking, Shagging, Gambling, and the Perils of Living One Day At A Time

The Jam, The Modern World, and Paul Weller's Jumper

Swamp-Psych Gardening: The Organic Strangeness Of Plant And See

Artist, Singer, Cyclist, Herky-Jerky Intellectual: The Endless Curiosity of Shy Talking Head David Byrne

James Kelman's Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul Is A Relentless Train Of Thought, Not A Cakewalk

The Languid Country Soul of Dylan LeBlanc, Born 10,000 Years Ago in Muscle Shoals

Billy Bragg and Wilco, Doing It For The Little Guy. Or, How Woody Guthrie Was Rescued From Sainthood on Mermaid Avenue

Gospel, With Bluenotes: The Mellow Fruits Of Hiss Golden Messenger's Quest For Faith

Lynne Ramsay's 'We Need To Talk About Kevin': The Omen Inverted - A Pop Art Jigsaw Of Alienation And Fear Of The Alien Within