Charles Donovan

In the first half of the 70s, 20th Century Records, the record label division of 20th Century Fox, managed to…

I'd known for years that my beloved boyfriend Miguel was HIV positive - but until that pivotal conversation, …

American soul/R&B singer-songwriter and pianist Zulema Cusseaux had more than enough talent to achieve stardo…

Keyboard virtuoso, singer/songwriter, multimedia artist, clubland innovator and hired hand for Hawkwind/Hawkl…

By a strange paradoxical quirk of the 70s, artists who pretended to be gay or bisexual - Bowie, Bolan, Lou Re…

'Killing Me Softly With His Song' is a Roberta Flack tune, right? Of course, there's that other version of it…

Nineteen Sixty-Eight brought with it three groundbreaking examples of the then-new concept of the singer/song…

Read the Attitude Magazine piece from LGBT writer Charles Donovan regarding his experiences at Harrow School …

1969. Take one versatile, musically literate singer. Give her a record deal with one of the prominent indepen…

Think of Motown, and Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, and The Temptations spring to mind. But for ev…

Sunday, 17 November 2019. It's a sharp evening in the capital as winter starts to bare its teeth. Inside the …

In the Christmas 2019 issue of Record Collector, I look into the life and work of singer/songwriter, the late…

Tucked away among the legends of Island Records in the 1970s was a songwriting teenager from Teeside called C…

By the time I started at Harrow School, aged 13, I already knew, had always known, I was gay. Harrow, one of …

Lucinda Williams talks life, love, songwriting, family and remaking her breakthrough album...

RnR Magazine allowed me the indulgence of writing about the way a particular piece of music entwined itself a…

I can trace every bad decision, every wrong turn, back to my school environment of the 1980s. My experiences …

Charlie Dore, singer, songwriter, actress and multi-instrumentalist, brings her tour (in support of Milk Roul…

On the cusp of fame and fortune in 1972, talented and critically acclaimed songwriter Shelagh McDonald disapp…

Interview with singer/songwriter, Sally Taylor, daughter of Carly Simon and James Taylor