songwriter

Mind That Steinway in the Potting Shed

There was a grand piano in the shed. There was a childhood split between Beaconsfield and Beverly Hills, a foxtrot down Sunset…

By Ima von Wenden

There Is No Such Thing as Nothing

A boy who watched beetles cross the grass rather than climb the trees grew into a poet, cartoonist, songwriter and campaigner -…

By Ima von Wenden

Eccentricity in the Blood

In the 1960s, John Blythe recalled growing up in the Eccentric Club founded by his grandfather, Jack Harrison. Half a century later,…

By David Whewell