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Readers recommend: songs about gardens – results

5084 days ago
Guardian MusicThe seeds sown in last week's blog have borne fruitGardens have long been depicted as places of innocence and imagination, of magic and possibility. That's the only traditional thing about the United States of America's unsettling, mesmerising The Ga... more info

Various artists: The First Rock and Roll Record – review

5098 days ago
Guardian MusicIt's an unanswerable question, but the search for rock's origins digs up many a treatThe question of what constitutes the first rock'n'roll record is controversial and highly emotive. It takes in serious issues about attitudes to race in 1940s Americ... more info

Readers recommend: songs about toys – results

5119 days ago
Guardian MusicBears, balloons, and dolls that look like Nick Cave. You were game for songs about toysHey, kids! Enjoy it while you can. Last week I asked you to nominate the best songs about toys. And it seems that the temporary nature of play – and of childhood... more info

Boy George: when we were heroes

5137 days ago
Guardian MusicSome never-before-seen photographs from the birth of the new romantic movement perfectly capture the spirit of the timeI don't know who said it but someone wise once warned that, "You should have a healthy respect for the past but never wallow in it.... more info

Gilbert O'Sullivan: time for a reappraisal?

5175 days ago
Guardian MusicI always considered Gilbert O'Sullivan as a fey songwriter more suited to people like Jerry from the Good Life. Then I heard a song that knocked me sideways …In 1973, Gilbert O'Sullivan was a piano-playing superstar on a par with Elton John. Today,... more info

David Bowie - David Bowie Helped Marc Bolan's Son 'survive'

5188 days ago
ContactMusicDavid Bowie helped Marc Bolan's son survive" after the rocker's death. Rolan Bolan was just two years old when his T-Red frontman father was killed in a car accident, and with legal problems surrounding the late star's estate, Rolan and his mother Gl... more info

Marc Bolan School Of Music And Film opens in Sierra Leone

5198 days ago
NMESchool for orphaned children founded by T. Rex star's family more info

Marc Bolan - Marc Bolan's Africa School Needs Financial Help

5198 days ago
ContactMusicThe former girlfriend of Marc Bolan has appealed for funds to help run a new school for orphans in Africa created in the late glam rocker's memory. The musician's former partner, singer Gloria Jones, and their son, Rolan Bolan, have founded the Marc ... more info

Marc Bolan's legacy moves to African school for orphans

5199 days ago
The Independent There is a corner of a field in Sierra Leone that will for ever resound to the very English strains of Marc Bolan. The war-torn African state is the unlikely location of a school for orphaned children created by the glam rock star's family in order ... more info

(Scuzz) Stay gold, Ty Segall

5231 days ago
Impose MagazineWhatever it was that got Ty Segall out of Orange County, god bless it a million times over. The kid belongs far from surf life and trophy wives. He belongs in SF absorbing record collections, testing out Marc Bolan riffs and one-man "Roll Over Beetho... more info

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