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Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social · 3d

I’m pretty sure I have. I think my contributor profile is tied to my old and now inactive Guardian email address, so it shows comments made when I was logged in using that

Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social · 3d

70 years since the birth of Rock’n’Roll, I went looking for signs of life … www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Everyone seems to be on Zimmers’: after 70 years of hip-shaking thrills, is rock’n’roll dead?

It is now seven decades since Little Richard sang Tutti Frutti – and a rip-roaring new type of music burst out into the world. But is rock’n’roll about to die out? Our writer goes searching for signs ...

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Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social · 6d

I reviewed Simply Red. I like Mick Hucknall more with each passing year. www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-d...

In defence of Mick Hucknall

Before Simply Red came on stage at the Greenwich peninsula’s enormodome, the screens showed a clip of a very young Mick Hucknall being interviewed. What he wanted, he said, was to be a great singer. U...

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Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social · 6d

I write about the late Ace Frehley. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Without Ace Frehley, Kiss could not have achieved their extraordinary greatness | Michael Hann

The guitarist was the most proficient musician in the original lineup and his bludgeoning ‘monster plod’ was central to their sound

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Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social · 6d

Told you he wasn’t dead

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Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social · 8d

I wrote about I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight. www.ft.com/content/fd38...

I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight — Americana with a dash of Englishness from Richard and Linda Thompson

Heavily influenced by The Band, the 1974 track by the folk-rock duo also featured a Manchester horn ensemble

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Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social · 13d

I wrote about the late John Lodge. Spent the afternoon listening to the Moody Blues. They were really very good. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

John Lodge was a pioneering force of British rock’s most underrated band

The late musician helped steer the Moody Blues into an exciting and groundbreaking new era of psychedelia

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Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social · 21d

I went to see Lady Gaga and the Beths, though not sharing a bill. www.spectator.co.uk/article/like...

Like Gabor Mate set to club beats: Lady Gaga, at the O2, reviewed

Lady Gaga’s show was to begin at 7.30 prompt, we were told. No opening act. And at 7.30 something did happen: the big screen over the stage started showing a film of Ms Gaga, clad in scarlet finery, ...

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Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social · 27d

This is the most transparent administration ever! The people demanded the files, and the White House is opening them up!

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Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social · 28d

I wrote about the late Danny Thompson, who invented a new vocabulary for British music. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

From Kate Bush to Pentangle to T-Rex, the late Danny Thompson’s musical brilliance knew no bounds

The bassist, who has died aged 86, was an extraordinary and wildly versatile presence in British music, bringing his personality into everything he played

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Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social · Sep 20

You’d think the MOTD producers might have looked at Rooney’s management career and pondered whether he had difficulty articulating his undoubted genius for football. But no. He’s famous, so put him on telly.

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Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social · Sep 18

I went to last night’s Together for Palestine concert. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Together for Palestine concert: Benedict Cumberbatch, Damon Albarn and Neneh Cherry take stage at galvanising and star-studded gig for Gaza

Scores of artists, speakers and activists appear a four-hour fundraiser curated by Brian Eno – but it’s Palestinian voices who make the biggest impression

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