Adam Sweeting
Bio
Former features editor of Melody Maker, Adam has written on rock, classical music and television for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Uncut, Classic FM and Gramophone, and on motor-racing for Motorsport. He co-founded The Virtual Television Company, which made Mr Rock'n'Roll (Channel 4), Pavarotti: The Last Tenor (BBC2 Arena) and Imagine - Nigel Kennedy (BBC One)
Articles By Adam Sweeting
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Review: Tori Amos - Ocean to Ocean, review
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As a teenager in 1967, I asked for a Mary Quant make-up box for Christmas and my parents reluctantly complied. It was so thrilling to hold that...
Royal Opera House lullabies for Little Amal
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Vanara, Hackney Empire review - fine singing, but a plodding...
Two tribes, both alike in dignity in fair Vanara, trade goods and insults in a post-apocalyptic world in which fire is known to The...
Invasion, Apple TV+ review - sci-fi epic or a pile of space...
Conceived on a global scale to depict the enormity of an alien...
Blu-ray: The Damned
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