Tag Archives: Music

Review: We All Shine On by Elliot Mintz

Posted on October 27, 2024 by Gabriella West

This memoir by a very old friend of the Lennons is definitely worth reading for the arc of his friendship with John. Mintz has many good stories. As a 26-year-old broadcaster in LA in 1971, he played Yoko’s double album … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged 1970s, Beatles history, bisexuality, death, Elliot Mintz, friendship, John Lennon, LA, loss, May Pang, memoir, Music, review, We All Shine On, Yoko Ono | Leave a comment

A Funeral in Tipperary

Posted on December 9, 2023 by Gabriella West

Little did I know when I picked up the second Pogues album, Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, on cassette in the mid-1980s in Dublin that I would one day be watching Shane MacGowan‘s funeral on a livestream from San Francisco … Continue reading →

Posted in creativity and its discontents, Personal | Tagged A Rainy Night in Soho, death, Dirty Old Town, Dublin, funeral, Haunted, legacy, Memory, mortality, Music, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor, The Pogues, Time | Leave a comment