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David Yearsley
time's echo
Book Review / 23 June 2026
23 June 2026

DAVID YEARSLEY is fascinated by the account of four composers who transformed their experiences of the second world war and the Holocaust into deeply moving works of art

TAXING MOMENT: Harold Wilson, leader of the Opposition, fields questions from George Harrison in March 1964
Music / 21 April 2026
21 April 2026

DAVID YEARSLEY has fun recalling George Harrison’s mischievous Taxman, which was released 60 years ago

putsch karaoke
Opinion / 10 February 2026
10 February 2026

DAVID YEARSLEY examines the soundtrack and filmic predecessors of the execrable Melania

Johann Sebastian Bach
Culture / 26 October 2020
26 October 2020
Bach’s Debt Cantata demands that you listen not to the financiers and politicians, but to your conscience, writes DAVID YEARSLEY