Keith Blackburn: 2 books

One of the bonuses of youth is that it has not accumulated enough decisions to regret. But, as age creeps in, future possibilities of regret become sparser, and decisions more urgent. At the age of forty, Steve Verity, part-time painter and part-time tutor in arts and crafts slightly balding, beer-paunch-ridden...

In an age when the airwaves were tightly controlled by the authorities, pirate radio was the illicit and illustrious haven for music lovers across the nation. From the first broadcast in 1964, the cowboys of the radio world fed their listeners’ desire for pop and rock music and, by doing so, changed...