May 30, 2019 2 min Too good to be forgotten #2: George Stibitz Who? One of the pioneers of the computer that’s who. Which is enormous achievement in itself, and well recognised in computing history ci...
May 21, 2019 5 min The most misunderstood people in pop #8: Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys? One of those boy bands from the 90s. Not the Justin Timberlake one, the other one right? Still knocking about I think, b...
Apr 16, 2019 4 min The most misunderstood people in pop #7: Pete Waterman Pete Waterman? What’s the big deal? Sure there were all those Stock, Aitken and Waterman 80s hits, Kylie, Jason and all that, had somethi...
Apr 4, 2019 4 min The most misunderstood people in pop #6: The Bee Gees There are two schools of misunderstanding The Bee Gees. The first, the classic version, long in the ascendancy and still extremely widesp...
Mar 26, 2019 4 min The most misunderstood people in pop #5: Posh Spice First of all it’s Victoria Beckham to you don’t you know? And she’s now the very rich, very successful and still very famous fashion entr...
Mar 25, 2019 5 min The most misunderstood people in pop #4: Bing Crosby Wait a minute, Bing Crosby - that Bing Crosby? Was really popular with my great great grandparents or whoever, did White Christmas which ...
Feb 28, 2019 3 min Too good to be forgotten #1: Alice Guy-Blaché Alice Guy-Blaché? Who? Only the world’s first female filmmaker, but more importantly than her gender, the first film director at all to r...
Feb 14, 2019 4 min The most misunderstood people in pop #3: Andrew Ridgeley Andrew Ridgeley, the pretty boy who had the good fortune to hang out with George Michael and ride his coat tails to fame. Didn’t write mo...
Jan 25, 2019 4 min The most misunderstood people in pop #2: Milli Vanilli Milli Vanilli, the most notorious example of lip synching ever, a salutary lesson in what happens when you lie to your fans as they never...
Jan 18, 2019 2 min The most misunderstood people in pop #1: Yoko Ono That Yoko Ono - she broke The Beatles up didn’t she? The greatest band in history, ended because of her. That’s why every time a woman is...