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Jun 16, 2024 · Robyn Hitchcock, the singer-songwriter and former member of the Soft Boys, talks about his new album Shufflemania, his father's writing, and his musical influences. He also reveals his policy of keeping his records off Spotify for a while and his love for brass knobs and handles.
Jun 28, 2024 · Robyn Hitchcock, the prolific British singer-songwriter and frontman of the Soft Boys, is releasing a new memoir that focuses on an instrumental year in his life, 1967.
13 hours ago · Hitchcock noted that, while The Beatles split up into four less impactful solo artists, Bob Dylan would have found splitting up with himself harder than persevering with his career through thick and thin. Though Dylan’s mid-1960s heyday was invaluable to Hitchcock’s success, his favourite album, Time Out Of Mind, arrived some three decades ...
Jun 21, 2024 · Robyn Hitchcock was among the best-known psychedelic revivalists of the ‘80s. Little wonder that 1967, the year psychedelia peaked, looms in his imagination. Hitchcock’s memoir of that year opens in 1966 because every history has a prehistory.
Jun 28, 2024 · Robyn Hitchcock selects tracks to compliment his upcoming memoir, 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left
Jun 25, 2024 · Robyn Hitchcock occupies a particular slot in time — 1967, to be exact. That is the titular year his whimsical and illuminating new memoir is devoted (mostly) to, 12 months of adolescence that made an indelible impression on the now 71-year-old singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
4 days ago · Robyn Hitchcock is perhaps the only living songwriter who can rhyme the word “love” with “periscope” and make it sound meaningful. His newly published memoir, 1967 How I Got There and Why I Never Left, effectively picks up at the moment he first heard “Like A Rolling Stone” and realised it was about him. Hence, the title of his book ...
