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Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello review – vividly captures a bygone age
Ian Penman
22, Dec, 2015 @7:30 AM
Ray Davies by Johnny Rogan review – the ‘complicated life’ of the Kinks frontman
Ian Penman
11, Mar, 2015 @7:00 AM
Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt by Marcus O’Dair – review
Ian Penman
26, Nov, 2014 @11:00 AM
Kid Creole – a classic NME feature from the vaults
NME turns 60 this year and a new book documents its history. In our latest trip to Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – we visit the magazine circa 1980, a time when Ian Penman saw nothing wrong with kicking off a Kid Creole feature with a spot of French philosophy
Ian Penman
06, Mar, 2012 @3:39 PM
Review: In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches
Ian Penman wonders which is the real Nick Tosches as he follows him along the high tightrope of his latest, In the Hand of Dante
Ian Penman
25, Jan, 2003 @11:35 PM
Review: Herzog on Herzog edited by Paul Cronin
Werner Herzog has left his fellow pioneers of New German Cinema far behind. Ian Penman catches up with Paul Cronin's collection, Herzog on Herzog
Ian Penman
30, Nov, 2002 @1:44 AM
Review: In the Sixties by Barry Miles
Barry Miles spent the 1960s hanging out with beat poets and rock icons. Ian Penman reads his diaries, In the Sixties
Ian Penman
12, Oct, 2002 @12:33 AM
Review: Travels in Search of the Perfect E by Decca Aitkenhead
Ian Penman follows Decca Aitkenhead around the world but finds that The Promised Land: Travels in Search of the Perfect E is too full of dull drug-taking to really capture the imagination
Ian Penman
19, Jan, 2002 @12:00 AM
Review: London Bone by Michael Moorcock
Ian Penman sets sail with Michael Moorcock's spectral map, London Bone
Ian Penman
07, Jul, 2001 @12:35 AM
Review: The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression by Andrew Solomon
Ian Penman hails a perplexed investigation of melancholy in The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression by Andrew Solomon
Ian Penman
19, May, 2001 @12:10 AM
Review: Landor's Tower by Iain Sinclair
In Landor's Tower, Iain Sinclair has lost his magic, laments Ian Penman
Ian Penman
04, May, 2001 @11:42 PM
Review: A Drink with Shane MacGowan by Victoria Mary Clarke and Black Vinyl, White Powder by Simon Napier-Bell
Shane MacGowan isn't the only pop phenomenon in terminal decline, laments Ian Penman after reading Shane's biography A Drink With Shane MacGowan and Simon Napier-Bell's history of pop gossip Black Vinyl, White Powder
Ian Penman
13, Apr, 2001 @11:32 PM
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