-
2 weeks ago | 
wsj.com | David Kirby
As a guitarist with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mike Campbell co-wrote many of the band’s breakthrough songs. “Heartbreaker” is the story of an artist whose music many readers have danced to, though they may not recognize his name. For decades, Mike Campbell not only played lead guitar with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and co-wrote many of Petty’s greatest hits, but he also performed and recorded with some of the biggest names in the business.
-
2 months ago | 
bmj.com | David Kirby
Dear Editor, Whilst it is both welcome and important that the BMJ has devoted an issue to the question of 'Racism in Medicine, Are we making any progress?' I could not help noticing that despite the cover picture of black bodies struggling to avoid drowning under a huge sea wave, evoking now both the English Channel and the Mediterranean, none of the articles concerned themselves with the making of race, which in general terms is associated with State violence - borders in the case of those...
-
Jan 2, 2025 | 
waikatotimes.co.nz | David Kirby
-
Nov 1, 2024 | 
wsj.com | David Kirby
As a boy growing up in Beverly Hills, Calif., Randy Newman received an upright piano for his fifth birthday. It was also around this time that his life started to slide sideways.
-
Oct 12, 2024 | 
postguam.com | David Kirby
In 1974, I heard that this groovy new group called Fleetwood Mac was coming to a venue near me, so I ran right out and got a ticket that I think cost all of six bucks – pricey, yes, but I had saved up. The show turned out to be one of the worst live-band performances I had ever attended. The music was dark and dirge-y when it wasn’t rote and repetitive, and the musicians didn’t appear to be happy with the audience or themselves. This group is terrible, I said to myself.
-
Oct 11, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | David Kirby
John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood - posed, group shot, with car. (Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images)Review by David KirbyOctober 11, 2024 at 2:09 p.m. EDTIn 1974, I heard that this groovy new group called Fleetwood Mac was coming to a venue near me, so I ran right out and got a ticket that I think cost all of six bucks — pricey, yes, but I had saved up. The show turned out to be one of the worst live-band performances I had ever attended.
-
Sep 6, 2024 | 
wsj.com | David Kirby
Have you been waiting for the one book that details the towering achievements and cringe-making catastrophes of the couple known as the King and Queen of Country Music? Were you also hoping for entire chapters on pinball machines, bullfighting, drag shows and the evolution of cowboy boots—as well as the poetry of William Blake and the exploits of Buffalo Bill?
-
Sep 5, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | David Kirby
Review by David KirbySeptember 5, 2024 at 1:44 p.m. EDTIn a recent conversation with Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, New York Times journalist David French proposed that it might be more important for members of the court to simply get along than for them to go to the opera together, to which Gorsuch replied, “Well, you’re not going to drag me to an opera, David.”Which makes me hope I never have to appear before the Supreme Court, especially on opera-related charges.
-
Aug 18, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Walter Leal Filho |Research Hamburg |David Kirby |Rosley Anholon
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest. REFERENCES (2017). Technology innovation and engineering’ education and entrepreneurship (TIEE) in engineering schools: Novel model for elevating national knowledge based economy and socio-economic sustainable development. Sustainability, 9(2), 171. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9020171 , , , & (2021).
-
Aug 1, 2024 | 
jackiecraven.substack.com | David Kirby |Jackie Craven |Broken promises
Of course they do! In Emily Dickinson’s world, hope has feathers and perches in the soul. For Juan Ramón Jiménez, music becomes“a naked woman / running mad through the pure night.” (Translated by Robert Bly) There’s something magical about poems that breathe life into the intangible. Grief rows a leaking boat. Democracy careens along drowsy lanes. Bliss bursts from thorny thickets. How do writers make such wild leaps?
