TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewThese interviews with the so-called ‘baby groupies’ of the 70s and 80s reveal why the music industry desperately needs its own #MeToo moment
Look Away (Sky Documentaries) is a documentary that looks directly at the music industry’s attitudes to and abuse of the young girls who were – and we can assume still are – pushed or pulled into musicians’ orbits. The film’s title comes from a track of the same name on Iggy Pop’s 1996 album Naughty Little Doggie, which is a “tribute” to one of the most famous “baby groupies” on Sunset Strip in the 70s, Sable Starr. Read More...
Mark LaneganObituaryMark Lanegan obituaryFormer singer with Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age who also found success as an authorThe death of Mark Lanegan, the former vocalist with the bands Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age, at the age of 57, feels painfully premature, but he had been walking a tightrope for most of his life. Last year, Covid-19 rendered him deaf, unable to walk and frequently comatose; he wrote a terrifying account of the experience in Devil in a Coma (2021). Read More...
ObituaryMary Hayley BellActor, playwright and devoted wife whose film hit was Whistle Down the WindAfter the writer and actor Mary Hayley Bell, who has died aged 94, was hit over the head by an attacker on her way to a friend's dinner party, she collapsed on the door-step and had to be carried unconscious into the house. When she revived, she begged her hosts: "Don't tell the police - it will spoil the evening. Read More...