This is the week that was in matters musical… 1954, Bill Haley and the Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock” is released … however, it will not be successful until 1955, when it is featured on the soundtrack of the movie Blackboard Jungle … Click here to view the embedded video. … Robert Allen Zimmerman celebrates his bar mitzvah … Robert will go on to achieve fame as Bob Dylan … 1955, Ruth Brown’s signature song, “Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean,” is banned in Britain by the BBC on the grounds that it might encourage wife beaters … Click here to view the embedded video. …Chuck Berry records his first single, “Ida Red” … during the session, producer Leonard Chess wants a name...

Whether the world No1 can still attract the affections, and spare cash, of middle America will become evident in AugustaThe humble golf hat is a long way down the billion-dollar food chain of American sports marketing, but when it carries the logo of a certain fallen idol then people pay attention. They did last week when a retail chain called Golfsmith announced that sales of Tiger Woods merchandise had risen in the face of the mostly singularly destructive celebrity scandal since Bill Clinton "did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky".Woods, by his own admission, did have sex with that woman – and that one, and that one, and on and on. Over the past four months he has paid a heavy price: financially, he has lost an estimated $40m (£26m) annually in sponsorship...

Whoever says  Scottish politics is dull might want to take a look at last week’s unravelling saga around Labour controlled Glasgow City Council. Who would have thought when Gordon visited a key ally two  Thursday’s ago that within a week, one of Scotland’s up and coming politicos would have attempted suicide, a police investigation would link the same man, Glasgow’s most senior politician, to major organised drug crime and an 18-year-old Labour activist would be end up dead outside the city’s Council Chambers. As ever Gordon is pulling a Macavity on this one. Steven Purcell was talked about as the saviour of the Scottish Labour Party, its brightest young star, he was tipped as a future First Minister.  However if Purcell ever wanted a return...

TROUBLED council chief Steven Purcell sensationally fled Scotland last night. He is jetting abroad to escape the pressure after a dramatic week which saw him quit as leader of Glasgow council. Sources close to Purcell said he won't return for up to a year. Earlier yesterday, Purcell followed up his decision to quit as £60,000-a-year leader of Scotland's biggest local authority by standing down as a councillor. Purcell spent some time at the Castle Craig rehab clinic in the Borders after he quit as council chief . He disappeared from the clinic on Sunday but turned up again soon afterwards. A source close to Purcell said: "Steven has always had an interest in the southern hemisphere and it is thought he might be spending some time...

The Curse of the One-Eyed Son of the Manse will not go away. Pharma big boys AstraZenca were very chuffed when Gordon welcomed their chairman as one of Britain’s Business Ambassadors three months ago. This was never going to go well. The smile was soon wiped off their face when Mr Ambassador fired 2,200 of his staff this week. The curse was particularly powerful in north of the border. Last Thursday Gordon shared the top table at a Labour Party fund-raiser in Glasgow with the leader of the council, the flamboyant “high-flyer” Steven Purcell.  Colleagues say he was buzzing at the party.  The next morning his career was over.  Purcell mysteriously cancelled meetings before eventually clearing his whole diary and promptly resigned citing “stress“. He then...

This is the week that was in matters musical… 1956, Buddy Holly records his first Decca singles at a session in Nashville … 1959, armed with just an acoustic guitar and tape recorder, Buddy Holly holes up in his New York City apartment to lay down the last tracks he will record … tunes include “Crying, Waiting, Hoping” and “Peggy Sue Got Married” … Coral Records will mix in backing instrumentation later and release the songs posthumously … Click here to view the embedded video. 1966, Nancy Sinatra, the most famous fruit of Frank’s loins, enters the Hot 100 for the second time with the timeless cheek and brassy cool of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” … Click here to view the embedded video. 1967,...

Business dragons, fitness trainers, psychologists, philosophers, style consultants, sex experts… Thirty gurus present bright ideas to help you make the most of 2010STEVE BENBOW ON KEEPING BEES IN THE CITYEinstein is supposed to have said: "If we lose bees then humanity falls to its knees." Whether or not the great man actually said it, the debt we owe these tireless pollinators was pulled sharply into focus last year as a global decline in bee populations became one of the 2009's biggest environmental stories. It was the year of the film The Vanishing of the Bees and the British Beekeepers' Association marched on parliament. This year, however, is all about our response. And many of us have been left wondering if we could help by becoming bee keepers ourselves, even those of us who are...

In an emotional interview, Peter Doherty - as he now calls himself - comes clean about his estrangement from his father, his fall out with Kate Moss and why, at last, it's great to be straight. By Craig McLeanIs Peter Doherty clean? He looks it, standing in the Parisian hotel corridor in his fluffy white dressing gown. The erstwhile Libertine, Babyshambler and now solo artist has a glow about his round, baby face (even at the age of 30 he barely needs to shave) and his hair is damp from the shower. Given that he's kept the film crew from one of France's top news programmes waiting for three hours - plenty of time for ablutions - he should be very clean indeed. Earlier this afternoon, Doherty, still a totemic, almost messianic figure for youth on both sides of the Channel, was happy to...

This is the week that was in matters musical … 1878, seminal turntablist Thomas Edison receives a patent for the phonograph … 1956, Bill Haley & The Comets receive a $250,000 guarantee for 21 shows … an unprecedented amount in those days … 1958, the first Flying V is shipped from Gibson’s factory in Kalamazoo … 1967, The Doors, Buffalo Springfield, and The Byrds join forces in an L.A. all-star concert to protest cops roughing up hippies on the Sunset Strip … though the concert did little to stop the pugilistic proclivities of the petulant police of precincts perpendicular to the Pacific Palisades, it did spawn Still’s hit, “For What It’s Worth,” thus enabling the pontificating pop star to afford police...

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