‘Music’, said Leo Tolstoy,’ is the language of emotion’, in a comment so trite that it has to be true. I saw this in its rawest form this...

A man sees what he wants to see, and disregards the rest. When I was about seven or eight, I had this fancy that my parents would one day...

Meat Loaf was sort of cool in my family until Tom was about thirteen, and someone at school told him he (Meat Loaf) was ‘properly shite’,...