When in 1960 over lunch Tony Pollard as editor and Alec Robertson as senior reviewer asked me to write for Gramophone I could not have been more delighted. I had already been writing a weekly record ...

I had been a Gramophone reader and LP collector since my early teens, thanks to the encouragement of an enlightened schoolmaster. As a postgraduate student, I was taken on by The Guardian as a concert ...

1923. For those who embraced the new, they were exciting times. The closing months of the previous year had seen the first BBC broadcasts and the publication of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land. Well, here ...