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SUMMARY:Debsey Wykes (Dolly Mixture) In conversation
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nThe Long Play Sessions presents: Debsey Wykes in conversation with Daniel Rachel\n Thu 19 Feb 2026 7:00 PM – 10:30 PM Venue and Cafe\, ICMP Queen’s Park Campus\, NW6 6PA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special evening with musician\, writer and feminist activist Debsey Wykes\, as she discusses her acclaimed book Teenage Daydream: We Are the Girls Who Play in a Band\, a Rough Trade and The Times Book of the Year 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event forms part of The Long Play Sessions\, a curated series hosted by ICMP celebrating some of the most acclaimed and influential authors writing about music today. Each session goes beyond the page\, bringing live conversation\, cultural context and creative insight to the stories that shape music history. \nDebsey will be joined in conversation by award-winning author and broadcaster Daniel Rachel\, one of the UK’s leading voices in music writing. Known for his sharp\, empathetic interviewing style and deep cultural knowledge\, Rachel brings a vital perspective to the discussion and will also appear as a featured guest in The Long Play Sessions in February 2026 (view event). \nTeenage Daydream is part memoir\, part cultural history\, celebrating the untold stories of girls and women who formed bands\, picked up instruments\, and carved out space in a music industry that rarely made room for them. Through personal experience and wider reflection\, Wykes explores creativity\, friendship\, rebellion and music as a force for self-expression and resistance. \nThe book shines a light on the realities of growing up in bands\, navigating gender expectations\, and finding your voice both on and off stage. It is an essential contribution to conversations around youth culture\, feminism and popular music history. \nWhat to expect\n\nScreening of Take Three Girls: Dolly Mixture Story (40mins)\nAn inspiring talk from Debsey Wykes on the stories and themes behind Teenage Daydream\nIn-depth conversation with Daniel Rachel on music\, gender and creativity\nAudience Q&A\nBook signing opportunity. Bring your copy or purchase one on the night\n\nWe look forward to welcoming you to The Long Play Sessions for what will be a fascinating evening with two outstanding voices of music culture. \n\n\nLocation\nVenue and Cafe\, ICMP Queen’s Park Campus\, NW6 6PA
URL:https://danielrachel.com/event/debsey-wykes-dolly-mixture-in-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Bookish
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\nWelcome to The San Diego Union-Tribune “Bookish” virtual event series which is in partnership with the Southern California News Group and the Bay Area News Group. Hosted by special projects editor and author Samantha Dunn\, Bookish is a free\, interactive salon-style program on books\, authors and the literary life.\nFebruary 20\, 2026\, 4:00 P.M.\n\n\n\n\nMartyn Burke is a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and journalist recently featured on the Netflix documentary “Mafia: Most Wanted.” The author of six books\, he’ll join us to discuss his new historical novel\, The Gossip Columnist – In Nazi-era Germany\, a writer harboring a dangerous secret struggles to counter the powerful propaganda of the Third Reich.\nDaniel Rachel\, musician-turned-bestselling author whose works include Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters\, examines rock music’s enduring and problematic fascination with the swastika in his new book This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music\, the Swastika and the Third Reich.\n\nCLICK HERE TO RSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://danielrachel.com/event/bookish/
CATEGORIES:Radio
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SUMMARY:City Lights: San Francisco
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nSaturday\, February 21\, 2026\, 11:00 am PST\nDaniel Rachel / This Ain’t Rock‘n’ Roll: Pop Music\, the Swastika\, and the Third Reich\nPrice: Free (Registration Required) \n\nCity Lights and Akashic Books celebrate the publication of This Ain’t Rock‘n’ Roll: Pop Music\, the Swastika\, and the Third Reich – by Daniel Rachel (introduction by Billy Bragg) – Published by Akashic Books \nRegister \n\n\nDaniel Rachel discusses his new book with Swedish punk rocker Dennis Lyxzen discussing This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a virtual event \nOver the last seven decades\, some of rock ’n’ roll’s most celebrated musicians have flirted with the imagery and theater of the Third Reich. From Keith Moon and Vivian Stanshall donning Nazi uniforms and terrorizing Jewish neighborhoods to Siouxsie Sioux and Sid Vicious brandishing swastikas in the pomp of punk\, generations of performers have associated themselves in troubling ways with the aesthetics\, mass hysteria\, and even ideology of Nazism. Whether by shock factor\, stupidity\, or a crass attempt at subversion\, rock ‘n’ roll has indulged these associations—whimsically\, carelessly\, occasionally malevolently—in a way not accepted by any other artform. But how accountable should fans\, the media\, and the music industry be for what has often seemed a sleazy fascination with the eroticized perversions of a fascist regime? \nIn This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll\, award-winning music historian Daniel Rachel navigates these turbulent waters with extraordinary delicacy and care\, asking us to look anew at the artists that have defined us\, inspired us\, and given us joy—and consider why so many have been drawn to the imagery of a movement responsible for the twentieth century’s worst atrocities. Alongside a sensitive history of the Holocaust and an examination of the place it holds in our cultural consciousness\, Rachel asks essential questions of actions often overlooked or underplayed\, while neither casting sweeping judgement nor offering easy answers. In doing so\, he asks us to reassess the history of rock ’n’ roll\, and sheds new light on the grim echoes of the Third Reich in popular culture—and the legacy of twentieth (and twenty-first)-century history as it defines us today. \nDaniel Rachel is a Birmingham-born\, best-selling author whose previous works include: Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story; Oasis: Knebworth: Two Nights That Will Live Forever; and The Lost Album of the Beatles: What If the Beatles Hadn’t Split Up?. He is also coauthor of Ranking Roger’s autobiography\, I Just Can’t Stop It: My Life in the Beat. In 2021\, Rachel was a guest curator of the “2 Tone Lives & Legacies” exhibition as part of Coventry Cultural City 2021\, and he curated the anniversary edition of the Selecter’s debut album\, Too Much Pressure. He lives in London. \nMade possible by support from the City Lights Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTune in to the City Lights podcast for recordings of our recent events\, and an archive of past highlights. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\, Google Podcasts or Stitcher.\n\n\n\n\nCity Lights Events are sponsored by the City Lights Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://danielrachel.com/event/city-lights-san-francisco/
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SUMMARY:Dave Rowntree (Blur) in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Dave Rowntree: No One You Know – Book Tour\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDave Rowntree joins host Daniel Rachel to talk about his new photography book No One You Know\, which contains exclusive\, intimate\, never-seen-before photos of Blur at the start of their career. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith hundreds of previously unseen photographs\, a personal foreword and detailed quotes of memories attached to the images\, No One You Know is a unique visual insight into the first few years of one of Britain’s most successful and well-loved bands\, from one of the only four people who knows what it was really like.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nDave Rowntree: No One You Know – Book Tour\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDave Rowntree joins host Daniel Rachel to talk about his new photography book No One You Know\, which contains exclusive\, intimate\, never-seen-before photos of Blur at the start of their career. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith hundreds of previously unseen photographs\, a personal foreword and detailed quotes of memories attached to the images\, No One You Know is a unique visual insight into the first few years of one of Britain’s most successful and well-loved bands\, from one of the only four people who knows what it was really like.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate\n\n\n\n\n\n26 02\n\n\n\n Time \n\n8:00 pm\n\n\n\n Cost \n\n£18.00\n\n\n\n More Info \n\nBook Now\n\n\n\n  \nLocation\n\nThe Hub\n\nSt Mary’s\nLichfield
URL:https://danielrachel.com/event/dave-rowntree-blur-in-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Jewish Book Week with Rosie Goldsmith SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION:Jewish Book Week 2026!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPop Music\, the Swastika & the Third Reich\n\n\n\n\n\n\n01/03/2026|\n\n\n\n\n3:30 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSt Pancras room\, Kings Place\n\n\n\n\nPrice: £10.00\n\n\n\nBook now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom Lennon and Bowie to punk and beyond\, some of rock ’n’ roll’s biggest icons have toyed with the aesthetics\, hysteria\, and even ideology of Nazism. Whether through shock\, ignorance\, or misguided attempts at provocation\, pop music has explored these associations in ways rarely seen in other art forms. In his meticulously researched and sensitively told This Ain’t Rock ’n’ Roll\, best-selling author Daniel Rachel examines these often-overlooked actions in conversation with Rosie Goldsmith. \nRosie Goldsmith\n \nRosie Goldsmith is a journalist and presenter. With the BBC for 20 years\, today she combines journalism with chairing and curating arts and literary events in the UK and across the world. She is Director of the European Literature Network\, Artistic Director of the European Writers’ Festival\, and presenter of the Slightly Foxed books podcast. \nBuy a copy of This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll by Daniel Rachel
URL:https://danielrachel.com/event/jewish-book-week-with-rosie-goldsmith/
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SUMMARY:JW3 Abraham Debating Club
DESCRIPTION:The Abraham Debating Club\n60 minutes\nThursdays at 1.30pm\n\nDelivering a talk  on This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll\n\n\nBox Office\n(020) 7433 8988 \n341-351 Finchley Road\, London\, NW3 6ET \nJW3 – Helping to create a vibrant\, diverse and proud community\, inspired by and engaged in Jewish arts\, culture and community
URL:https://danielrachel.com/event/jw3-abraham-debating-club/
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SUMMARY:Art & Talking: Chipping Norton
DESCRIPTION:Saturday March 14 2026 7-9pm Daniel Rachel– will discuss his new book\nThis Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music\, the Swastika and the Third Reich.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Rachel is not looking to cancel or absolve but instead explore the musical obsession with atrocity and how it relates to rock history in general. A sadly rather timely book.” NME \n\nhttps://www.artandtalking.com/books-authors
URL:https://danielrachel.com/event/art-talking-chipping-norton/
CATEGORIES:Appearance
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SUMMARY:Crouch End Political Festival
DESCRIPTION:With Vera Baird KC \n \nSaturday 21 March\nHornsey Library\nLondon N8
URL:https://danielrachel.com/event/crouch-end-political-festival/
CATEGORIES:Appearance
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SUMMARY:The Laugharne Weekend with Robin Ince
DESCRIPTION:Fountain Inn \n12.15 Daniel Rachel Discusses his provocative study of pop’s flirtations with Nazi imagery and ideology\, This Ain’t Rock’n’Roll
URL:https://danielrachel.com/event/the-laugharne-weekend/
CATEGORIES:Appearance
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SUMMARY:Mike Joyce (The Smiths) in conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Drums: Mike Joyce – Book Tour\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a band\, The Smiths need no introduction. Formed in 1982 and disbanded in 1987\, all five of their studio albums reached the top five in the UK charts. They are widely lauded as one of the most influential bands of all time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is Mike Joyce’s open-hearted story of what it was like to play the drums in The Smiths. Throughout his honest and witty reflections\, Mike answers the question ‘where did it all go right?’ – a question he and\nbassist Andy Rourke used to often ask each other. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRather than simply retelling the well-documented iconic moments of the history of The Smiths\, in The Drums\, Mike conveys ‘the feeling’ of his time in the band. His off-piste\, frank perspective allows him to recontextualise the canonised stories with beautifully vulnerable\, human insight. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMike’s honest\, entertaining and deeply human memoir truly conveys what it felt like to be a member of The Smiths when you are the self-confessed biggest Smiths fan in the world. He shares stories from his new book\, in conversation with Daniel Rachel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Hub at St Mary’s\nLichfield
URL:https://danielrachel.com/event/mike-joyce-the-smiths-in-conversation/
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SUMMARY:BBC 5 Live - Paul McCartney
DESCRIPTION:What are the greatest non-Beatle Paul McCartney songs? \nDaniel joins the panel and selects his Top 5 Macca tracks… \nMonday night feature “The Greatest” \n  \n 
URL:https://danielrachel.com/event/bbc-5-live-paul-mccartney/
CATEGORIES:Radio
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SUMMARY:Oasis night
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SUMMARY:Hackney History Festival: Rock Against Racism in Victoria Park
DESCRIPTION:Rock against Racism in Victoria Park.\n \n1978. 100\,000 music fans walked seven miles from Trafalgar Square to Victoria Park. To protest against the National Front. To rejoice in the music of punk and reggae. And to watch X-Ray Spex\, Steel Pulse and the Clash. This was Rock Against Racism. Anti-racist\, Anti-sexist. And a warning to the divisive rhetoric of rock gods like Eric Clapton\, Rod Stewart and David Bowie. \nDaniel Rachel\, author of Walls Come Tumbling: the music and politics of Rock Against\, 2 Tone & Red Wedge in conversation with Andrew Harrison. \nSun 17 May 2026 12:00pm\nBuy tickets\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nManage tickets \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNOTE:  Hackney Half takes place in the morning with some road closures and disruption to buses\, so you are advised to travel by train to Homerton Station or walk/cycle. \n\n\n\nLocation\nChat’s Palace\, E9 6DF
URL:https://danielrachel.com/event/hackney-history-festival-rock-against-racism-in-victoria-park/
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SUMMARY:'A Hard Day's Night' with Samira Ahmed
DESCRIPTION:The Long Play Sessions : Samira Ahmed with ‘A Hard Day’s Night’\n Thu 11 Jun 2026 7:00 PM – 10:30 PM The Venue and Refectory\, ICMP (Queens Park Campus)\, NW6 6PA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on 11 June at 7:00 pm at ICMP’s Queen’s Park venue for a special in‑conversation event with award‑winning journalist\, writer\, and broadcaster Samira Ahmed\, as she discusses with Daniel Rachel her brand‑new book in the BFI Film Classics series:\nA Hard Day’s Night – her deep dive into the Beatles’ groundbreaking 1964 film. \nIn this intimate interview\, Samira will explore how A Hard Day’s Night—originally created to capture the Beatles’ explosive rise—has become a genuine cinematic classic. Drawing from her lifelong love for the film and her remarkable 2023 discovery of the earliest known full Beatles concert recording\, Samira examines how the movie captured the shifting cultural landscape of 1960s Britain and redefined modern celebrity. \nExpect insights into: \n\nThe film’s innovative blend of documentary realism and playful rebellion\nHow Beatlemania transformed ideas of fame\, identity\, and media\nThe film’s lasting influence on generations of artists\, fans\, and filmmakers\nSamira’s personal connection to the Beatles and how the film shaped her own journey into journalism\n\nAbout the author:\nSamira Ahmed presents Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and Newswatch on BBC One\, and has created acclaimed documentaries including Art of Persia and I Dressed Ziggy Stardust. In 2020 she was named Audio Presenter of the Year by the Broadcasting Press Guild. A Hard Day’s Night is her first book. \nWhether you’re a Beatles fan\, a film lover\, or simply curious about the cultural forces that shaped modern Britain\, this is an evening not to miss. \n  \n\n\n\nLocation\nThe Venue and Refectory\, ICMP (Queens Park Campus)\, NW6 6PA
URL:https://danielrachel.com/event/a-hard-days-night-with-samira-ahmed/
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SUMMARY:Five Leaves Bookshop - Nottingham
DESCRIPTION:This Ain’t Rock’n’Roll: pop music\, the swastika and the Third Reich\, with Daniel Rachel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, 28th October\, 2026\n7:00 pm – 8:30 pm\n\n*Five Leaves Bookshop\n14a Long Row\, Nottingham\, NG12DH\n\n\n\n\nTickets: £5.00 – £12.99\nBook Now \n\n\n\nIn this illustrated talk\, Daniel Rachel explores one of the last taboos in pop culture and asks why the Nazis\, fascism and the Third Reich feature so prominently in the iconography of the artists that defined the twentieth century. \nOver the last seven decades\, some of rock ‘n’ roll’s most celebrated figures have flirted with the imagery and theatre of the Third Reich. From Keith Moon and Vivian Stanshall kitting themselves out in Nazi uniforms to Siouxsie Sioux and Sid Vicious brandishing swastikas in the pomp of punk\, generations of performers have associated themselves in  with the aesthetics\, mass hysteria and even ideology of Nazism. Whether shock factor\, stupidity\, or crass attempt at subversion\, rock ‘n’ roll has indulged these associations in a way not accepted by any other artform. But how accountable should fans\, the media\, and the music industry be for what has often seemed a sleazy fascination with the eroticised perversions of a fascist regime? \nDaniel Rachel navigates these turbulent waters\, asking us to look anew at the artists that have defined us\, inspired us and given us joy – and consider why so many have been drawn to the imagery of a movement responsible for the twentieth century’s worst atrocities. Alongside a sensitive history of the Holocaust and an examination of the place it holds in our cultural consciousness\, Rachel asks essential questions of actions often overlooked or underplayed\, whilst neither casting sweeping judgement nor offering easy answers. In doing so\, he asks us to reassess the history of rock ‘n’ roll and sheds light on the echoes of the Third Reich in popular culture and the legacy of twentieth (and twenty-first) century history as it defines us today. \nDaniel Rachel is a former musician turned author. His previous books include Too Much Too Young\, the 2 Tone Records Story; Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters; and The Lost Album of the Beatles: What If the Beatles Hadn’t Split Up? He has also written sleeve notes for many artists including the Kinks\, Madness\, Ocean Colour Scene\, Ray Davies\, and Bryan Ferry. \nBooking essential
URL:https://danielrachel.com/event/five-leaves-bookshop-nottingham/
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