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Len Brown

Sabotaging since 2 Feb 2010

Len Brown was born in the Scottish Borders and brought up in Newcastle upon Tyne. He trained as a journalist on the East End News and The South Shields Gazette, before joining the staff of the New Musical Express in 1984. Since 1994 - as a television producer, director or executive producer - he has worked on many documentaries for the BBC, ITV and Channel Four including My Generation (R&B bands of the 1960s), When Boxing Ruled The World, T. Rex: Dandy In The Underworld, Three Lions (A History Of The England Football Team 1960-2000), The Brit Girls, Football Stories and Rod Stewart: Wine Women & Song. Other career opportunities have included stints as a psychiatric nurse, a storyliner on Coronation Street and a school caretaker. His book Meetings with Morrissey was listed as one of the Top Ten Rock Biographies by The Independent newspaper and his play Ghosts At Cockcrow (Enslaved and Expelled) is currently being performed in Scotland by the Three Wee Crows theatre company..

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Music

Fela Kuti: The King of Afrobeat, Part Two

Part Two of the interview with one of my musical heroes led down a much darker, and more misogynistic, route and left me disagreeing with his neanderthal views on women and homosexuals.

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Music

Fela Kuti: The King of Afrobeat Interviewed, Part 1

Despite his death over a decade ago, Fela Kuti is undergoing something of a resurgence with the re-release of his back catalogue and the award-winning musical, Fela. Here’s part one of an archive interview with the great man…

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Life

Taking Dad To Visit His WWll Ghosts In Arnhem

A heartfelt tale of one man taking his elderly father for a pilgrimage back to the battlefields of Arnhem and Oosterbeek in the Netherlands.

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Sport

Paul Gascoigne: My Hero

Gazza reveals the full extent of his battle with alcohol on ITV tonight. But despite the arrests, the trips to clinics and the worrying behaviour he’s still the man for me…

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Books

A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga Of The Smiths - Reviewed

They may have only been around for five years, but their legacy is as strong today as it ever was. A weighty new biography looks at the highs and lows of Morrissey and co…

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Music

The Passing Of A Prophet - Speaking With Gil Scott-Heron in 1986

An interview in a hazy west London hotel room with the man himself proved that the legend of Gil Scott-Heron will always live on…

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Football

Newcastle United Legend Shearer: The Monotonous Voice of Reason

It’s easy to side with Joey Barton and mock Shearer but his values are actually more valid than he’s given credit for.

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Music

Meetings With Morrissey

At the dawn of the 21st Century Morrissey was beginning to look like history. He hadn’t released a new album for over two years (after Maladjusted had been critically savaged), he had no record company deal, there were rumours of deep depression and, worst of all, the 1998 court case with Smiths’ drummer Mike Joyce had ended in utter calamity.

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