Terry Staunton

Personal reflection and pithy humour, with a few pals

Surviving sibling sets the controls for the soul of country

A loose template for The Wanderer to explore myriad shades of American music

A young folkie evolves into 
a versatile interpreter of ’60s 
song

Folk mainstay's sardonic and scattergun "audio biography"

Repackaged, unpretentious solo debut still intrigues

"Good rockin' daddy down from Tennessee" revisited

Public Enemy figurehead Chuck D makes his debut as a commentator on the Fox News Channel in the US. His first broadcast includes his thoughts about the ongoing trial of alleged bomber Timothy McVeigh, OJ Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark's new book, a brawl during a New York Knicks basketball game, Tiger Woods' multi-million dollar sponsorship deal with American Express, and blockbuster movie The Lost World.

HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO May 14 to 20, 1997 Crosby, Stills & Nash are inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame. Neil Young also gets the call, as part of Buffalo Springfield, while other inductees are Joni Mitchell, The Bee Gees, The Jackson Five, Parliament/Funkadelic, and The Young Rascals.

HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO May 7 to 13, 1997 Kurt Cobain's Seattle home, where his body was found three years earlier, is put up for sale by Courtney Love. The asking price is $3 million.