God and the editor willing, next month’s column will be the 100th ‘Olden but golden’.
God and the editor willing, next month’s column will be the 100th ‘Olden but golden’. For those who write in The Spectator every week, this would doubtless seem small beer. For a monthly column it feels like a landmark and one I sometimes doubted I would reach. And of course I may not…. As any journalist will tell you, every piece you write has the potential to be your last.
‘Olden but golden’ began in October 2001, and I was pleased as Punch to be allowed to do it. Pop music has been a big part of my life since 1963, when I was eight and first discovered the Beatles. So when I got the go-ahead to write a column about golden oldies in The Spectator, a magazine I had admired and read regularly for the previous 25 years, it was one of the proudest moments of my professional life.
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