Is it fair to critique someone’s life? Is it fair to boo a musician at a concert? Is it fair for political candidates to be lampooned in public? As long as you put it out there for public consumption, I suppose it is. “One, Two, Three, Four — Mother *&%@&^,” says Springsteen. It is the […]
When Sidharth Bhatia contacted me about a year ago armed with a bunch of probing questions about my life as a rock’n’roll singer in the band Human Bondage some two centuries ago (well, I exaggerate, it was in the mid-70s), frankly, I was astonished. “I’m writing a book about rock’n’roll in India, back in the […]
Yesterday I met Jimi Hendrix. For real. And he turned out to be very different from the Jimi I thought I knew. Considering how close we’d been. Hell, the first thing I ever learnt to play on my gittar (left-handed) was the bass line to Hey Joe. And it wasn’t till years later that […]
