An hilarioustouching coming-of-age from one of Britain's leading music broadcasters, this is the story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music, from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3) to living - and leaving - the sex, drugs (chiefly lager in a plastic glass) [...]

Everyone talks about 'Middle England'. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of "Daily Mail" readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold village in summer twilight. But just where and what is Middle England? Stuart Maconie didn't know either[...]

These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and - just sometimes - changed the way we feel. Beginning with Ver[...]