Remember Sub Sub who went top ten with Ain’t No Love as Melanie Williams belted out the song that stormed the charts, well the men behind this track were Jimi Goodwin and brothers Jez and Andy Williams and after this track we didn’t really hear from them again. Unluckily for the band on the Williams brother’s birthday their studio burned down and instead of packing it in they decided to start afresh as Doves. Was this unlucky in the long run? Six albums, five of them top ten

I am eleven in 1982, and music is something I Like, well I watch Top of the Pops. My late father’s records sit in a cupboard; my mother never plays them and although I have looked at them, I have no interest in listening to them and keep asking her why she didn’t just throw them away. Now as a fifty-five-year-old man I see she was a young woman in her early thirties grieving for the loss of her husband so she would have no desire to throw them away, they were part of him and

When Lily Allen first arrived in 2006 I was thirty five and although I didn’t mind her number one single Smile I certainly didn’t listen to the album as I was too old, I thought. One of the greats to me in music is Mick Jones and when I heard he was teaming up with her for a cover of one of his songs Straight to Hell (does that make it a cover?), I had to hear. Lily takes the lead but Mick is there on vocals and it doesn’t have the brooding intensity of the original but is e