It lasted for less than two years, but it seemed like this yard went on forever. Those of us who were there, refer to it as The WTF Years...

We are all prisoners here of our own device. I was thinking about this line from “Hotel California” the other night along with “You can...

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Nathan doesn’t wish to be famous. He and his friends just want to make music. Their music. They are not copyists nor do they want to be...

Being Bridget Jones When writing a song called “Home” with Welsh singer-songwriter Ben Semmens, the lyrics that came out of that magical...

With travel restrictions having hobbled Hong Kong’s image and reputation as an international city, we’re pretty much left to our own...

Forget everything that happened in 2019. What you have today is a very different Hong Kong- different to even what it was five short...

Timeless, ageless, stylish. They’re all words that have been used to describe actress, humanitarian and one-time UNICEF ambassador Audrey...

And now it’s the metaverse. It’s the new buzzword. Many I know are reading up on the metaverse so as not to be left out. Left out of...

It was my dad who introduced me to Latin American music when a kid in Ceylon, which is today known as Sri Lanka. Through this music, I...

If music makes people happy and there’s so much emphasis placed on curing everything ailing the world through wellness, it stands to...

It was the first time I ever tried writing a song and it became the first solo hit for Sam Hui. Sam had left his group the Lotus and,...

Let’s call her Tak- not her real name. Tak was open, spontaneous, creative and adventurous in many ways. It’s what attracted me to her....

Everyone has, from time to time, different reasons to feel a case of the blahs coming on. Many don’t even need a reason. It’s part of...

The EMI Years really were a monster mashup of the good, the bad and the very fugly. For at least one of the Chinese girls working for us...

We practically owned the three major escort clubs in Hong Kong at the time- the New Tonnochy Ballroom in Wanchai and the big daddy of...

One learned mainly through trial and error. Nothing was really explained. If fortunate enough to be given a job- and maybe even one with...

It was singer-actor and friend Sam Hui who was the first to know that Trina was pregnant- even before us. We were visiting him and wife...

It was her missionary shoes that first attracted me to her- flat, plain, black shoes that somehow accentuated her fabulous legs. Of...

By Hans Ebert I had a short chat with Peter Mukerjea around six months ago. He messaged me about a book he had written, getting in touch...