MADONNA Madame X (Universal) Far from disappearing, in what Our Betters like to describe as a shallow, anti-intellectual, attention-limited generational shift, The Big Statement has come roaring back in recent years. It could be the thematic album, the political album, the socially uplifting album, the personal revenge album. It could be the multi-media/multi-platform concept, the genre-straddling move, the mega-mechanics stadium show, and even the Super Bowl half time show,

BERNARD ZUEL - A LOOK BACK AT 2016 GIGS

As I said in an earlier post, I had to pick 50 songs from 50 years to mark a landmark that we don’t need to go over again here thank you very much (cos I still feel like the 13-year-old and I sure act like him often enough). Only one song per year, one song per artist, each with some significance for me. There was a CD, so along with the songs these are excerpts from the liner notes. (Of course there were liner notes.) The first tranche takes us from 1965 to 1989. 1965: The