Browsing: addiction

It wouldn’t be hard to turn Dave McCabe’s life into a misery memoir – expelled from school, found guilty of…

One might be forgiven for thinking that a two-hander about alcoholism is going to be a tough watch. Yet David…

Darren Day remembers his fall from grace with vivid clarity. “I was playing Danny Zuko in Grease – a dream…

Pete Doherty. Felt Better Alive. It’s hard to shake the memory of Doherty as the self-destructive nuisance of the Noughties. But that…

Big-hearted Elton John made a phone call every day for a whole year to help Squeeze guitarist Chris Difford beat…

 Few stars embraced rock ‘n’ roll’s life-threatening extremities as enthusiastically as Billy Idol. But the Middlesex-born rocker tells me he…

 Jason Isbell. Foxes In The Snow.This sublime stripped-back country album opens acapella with the reflective Bury Me. ‘Bury me where…

Chart-topping American dance star Hilary Roberts has overcome addiction, survived open-heart surgery, and credits the inspiration of her friend Sir…