The first UK paperback edition, 1976. Cover art by David Bowie’s illustrator friend George Underwood.
• At the BFI: “Humanity, lost and found”. The original Sight and Sound review by Tom Milne of The Man Who Fell to Earth which was released 50 years ago this month. The film is another Nicolas Roeg project whose lofty reputation today has made everyone forget the bewildered or even hostile reaction it generated at the time, including from the US distributor, Paramount, who hated it. Milne, by contrast, had read the novel it was based on, and paid close attention to what the film’s writer, Paul Mayersberg, described as its “minefield of images”.
• Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James.
• Issue 13 of Verbal magazine features an interview with Michael Moorcock, Iain Sinclair in the “Talking Books” section, and more.
• New music: 4 Hours (DVATION 2026 Version) by Clock DVA; -Music For Oriental Hotel Okinawa Resort & Spa- by Harikuyamaku.
• The Shaw Brothers Cinema YouTube channel has whole feature films from the studio’s huge archive free to view.
• At Colossal: “Historic architecture emerges from stone in Matthew Simmonds‘ ethereal sculptures”.
• “Music with Balls”: Terry Riley performing live with an arrangement of shiny silver spheres on KQED TV in 1969.
• Mixes of the week: DreamScenes – March 2026 at Ambientblog, and Motorik by Jon Savage.
• “What is electronic music?” Daphne Oram explains.
• RIP Country Joe MacDonald.
• Stardust (1941) by Artie Shaw And His Orchestra | Stardust (1959) by Martin Denny | Stardust (1985) by Yasuaki Shimizu & Saxofonettes