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Keith Jarrett’s accidental masterpiece

24.01.2025 9

John Sturgis

The worst hangover in the world

I awoke in the early afternoon of 31 December 1995 face down on the carpeted floor of a mansion house flat in Notting Hill with the...

01.01.2025 3

John Sturgis

Were Boney M the weirdest pop act of all time?

For a spell in the late 1970s there were two pop groups which dominated the UK singles charts – both, coincidentally, vocal quartets from...

19.12.2024 7

John Sturgis

Unworthy farm / Glastonbury and the problems of youth

On Sunday, I was in deepest Wales, listening to birdsong, braying donkeys and a demented cockerel, but instead of getting away from it all I was...

22.11.2024 5

John Sturgis

Disney’s betrayal of The Jungle Book

When Sven-Göran Eriksson’s coffin was being paraded through the streets of his home town, ahead of his funeral, it was followed by a marching...

30.09.2024 10

John Sturgis

High drama / I’m glad my wife had a medical emergency at sea

My wife had already been given morphine and they had just topped her up with ketamine. She was now so high she didn’t seem even to know where she...

10.09.2024 5

John Sturgis

In defence of airport pints

It is hard to think of anyone in aviation history who has done more to degrade the passenger experience of air travel than the man who has run...

29.08.2024 40

John Sturgis

Knebworth / I was an Oasis fan. Then I grew up

On the evening of 10 August 1996, I found myself lost in the grounds of a stately home in Hertfordshire, and very, very drunk. Everywhere I turned,...

27.08.2024 10

John Sturgis

RIP / Sven-Goran Eriksson: 1948-2024

The former England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson died today. He had terminal cancer and said he expected to be dead before the year was out....

26.08.2024 10