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May 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Whitney, Can I Be Me: Film

Whitney, Can I Be Me Director: Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal Lafayette Films/Passion Pictures/Showtime Networks A subtly powerful documentary that gets its strength and credibility through the use of footage from a never-before-seen fly-on-the-wall 1999 tour doco (that’s Dolezal’s footage, hence the co-directing credit), it seems important to get out of the way, right away, […]

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December 22, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 971

Bobby Brown, Don’t Be Cruel (1988) My favourite rediscovery of 2014 – no joke, no shame, no guilty-pleasure bullshit. I mean it. I found this record in a chuck-out bin, a coupla bucks, and it was that silly, giddy rush of nostalgia that hit. Head on. Taken, straight away, back to a bus-ride home from […]

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August 21, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1302

Sonic Youth, Goo (1990) I had the tape – my first Sonic Youth tape but not the first album I heard by them. The first one I owned though and the first that totally pulled me in. Swapped it for a Bobby Brown tape. Go figure – that’s gotta rank as one of the music world’s […]

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June 5, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Cissy Houston: Remembering Whitney

Remembering Whitney: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss and the Night the Music Died Cissy Houston Harper Collins Considering this is – apparently – about Remembering Whitney, about “the night the music died” there’s not a lot of Whitney in here and not a lot of remembering. Cissy Houston, Whitney’s mum, is of course entitled/qualified […]