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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

The Butler: A Zelig-like Tale of Struggle in Which the Metaphor Wears a Tuxedo.

Remember How The Darkness Doubled? Chris Forsyth's Solar Motel Is Like A Brilliant Sequel To Marquee Moon

Sandpaper, Factory Records, Joy Division And The Noises In Vini Reilly's Head: The Beautiful Messing Of The Durutti Column

Chance Martin's In Search: A Lost Missive From The Other Side Of Nashville

Forget C86, The Pastels' Slow Summits Is Like The Soundtrack To A Haruki Murakami Film Starring James Garner

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