Sheila Johnston
Bio
Sheila worked on the launch of the Independent, where she was a writer-editor and film critic for 10 years. She has written on cinema for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, The Times, Sight and Sound, Guardian, Libération, Interview and New York Daily News, among other places.
Articles By Sheila Johnston
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Selina Todd: Tastes of Honey review – Salford dreams of free...
In the late 1950s, a photo technician from Salford suddenly became “the most famous teenager in Britain”. Shelagh Delaney was 19 when she sent the...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Live at W...
Apparently, Creedence Clearwater Revival drummer Doug Clifford’s snare drum broke during the first song of their set at Woodstock Festival. On the...
Karl Marlantes: Deep River review - growing pains of a natio...
Karl Marlantes’s Deep River is an all-American novel. And why...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 reviews: Jordan Brookes/ Catherine Coh...
Jordan Brookes Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★
Jordan Brookes doesn’t tell gags. Well, he does but not in a...
Prince Albert: A Victorian Hero Revealed, Channel 4 review -...
It may sound perverse to say it, but Albert was the perfect twenty-first century prince. Thrust into the heart of the...
Prom 47: Schönheit, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Nelsons review - Bru...
After Thursday night’s concert I celebrated the Proms’ exploration of unfamiliar repertoire via...
A Faithful Man review - an atypical romance
There were some early warning signs that A Faithful Man might be another box-ticking...
Edinburgh International Festival 2019: JARV IS review - Brit...
”Cunts Are Still”. Well, that got your attention, didn’t it? Not my words, merely the title of one of JARV IS’s new tracks. In case you didn’t get...
