Jack Whatley

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Jack Whatley

Sun 15 June 2025 17:36, UK A wise man once said, “We need to make books cool again”. This poignant message is built on the foundations of learning, the pursuit of knowledge, and the broadening of one’s horizons. The same wise and practical man continued, “If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em”. Thus, the quest to find the legendary reading list of the wise man, the iconic John Waters, began.

3 weeks ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Jack Whatley

Wed 4 June 2025 18:10, UK Jim Morrison was barred from more establishments than vaping indoors. Boldly evocative, barely clothed, and often intoxicated, with lascivious swagger, he underpinned the artful liberation of the 1960s. He always teetered on the brink of taking things too far, especially on one September day in 1967. It was a moment which could have quite easily cost The Doors their career, but, in the end, may well have made it.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Jack Whatley

6 hours agoThe Monkees' Micky Dolenz Tells All on Wild Nights with John Lennon, Twinning with Elton John and Touring at 80 (Exclusive)“MADNESS!! AUDITIONS,” read the ad that ran in Daily Variety on Sept. 8, 1965. It called for four “insane boys” who “have the courage to work.” The hundreds of young hopefuls it attracted couldn’t have known it, but the notice was a casting call for what would become The Monkees.

3 weeks ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Jack Whatley

Wed 4 June 2025 16:11, UK “[The Clash are] the only band that matters.”Superlatives and hyperbole are part of a music journalist’s arsenal of weaponry. Of course, for most writers, the music is very much life or death, meaning the negative connotations of each term are a little less truthful. But if you don’t enjoy labelling a particular note on a guitar solo, the sonic equivalent of being massaged by several deities at once, then you’re just not enjoying yourself enough.

3 weeks ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Jack Whatley

Tue 3 June 2025 14:57, UK Paul McCartney is undoubtedly one of the most gifted songwriters pop music has ever known, his recent album McCartney III is proof of that. One of the foremost creatives pop music has ever known, what McCartney hasn’t achieved is not worth pursuing. As a solo artist over the last 50 years, McCartney made an incredibly large imprint on music, one that can still be seen clearly today. However, it was his work with The Beatles that will likely outlast us all.