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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

Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution, BBC Two review - how the Fab Four changed pop music forever

Sunday, 04 June 2017 Read more...

Wonder Woman review - Gal Gadot shines in uneven superhero yarn

Thursday, 01 June 2017 Read more...

CD: Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want?

Thursday, 01 June 2017 Read more...

Broken, BBC One review - things look bleak in McGovernville

Wednesday, 31 May 2017 Read more...

Sachin: A Billion Dreams review - the incredible feats of cricket's 'Little Master'

Friday, 26 May 2017 Read more...

White Gold, BBC Two review – rattling pace and razor-edged dialogue

Thursday, 25 May 2017 Read more...

McLaren review - illuminating portrait of New Zealand's racing ace

Wednesday, 24 May 2017 Read more...

10 Questions for film director Roger Donaldson – 'motor racing in the 1960s was incredibly dangerous'

Tuesday, 23 May 2017 Read more...

Kat and Alfie: Redwater, BBC One review – 'EastEnders' spinoff suffers from no fixed identity

Friday, 19 May 2017 Read more...

King Charles III, BBC Two review - royal crisis makes thrilling drama

Thursday, 11 May 2017 Read more...

Alien: Covenant review - we've seen most of this before

Thursday, 11 May 2017 Read more...

Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains, V&A review – from innocence to experience and beyond

Wednesday, 10 May 2017 Read more...

Britain's Nuclear Bomb: The Inside Story review - 'power, politics and national identity'

Thursday, 04 May 2017 Read more...

Brian Johnson's A Life on the Road review – ripping yarns of rock'n'roll

Saturday, 29 April 2017 Read more...

The Promise review - genocide reduced to melodrama

Friday, 28 April 2017 Read more...

Little Boy Blue review – 'the sum of all fears'

Tuesday, 25 April 2017 Read more...

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With Brad Pitt’s much-trumpeted F1 movie about to screech noisily into the multiplexes, it’s not a bad time to be reminded of the career of one of...

Classical CDs: Bells, whistles and bowing techniques

 

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Album: Yungblud - Idols

Yungblud has declared his fourth album, Idols, to be a “a project with no limitations”. This is quite a claim.

So, what musical...

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Suzuki, St Marti...

In the Saxony of 1725 – still in the grip of Europe’s “Little Ice Age” – Bach and his musicians would seldom have had to deal with the sort of...

Patrick Wolf, Rough Trade East review - the Kent-based bard...

After the evening’s second song “The Last of England,” Patrick Wolf cautions “I’ve got nothing left to say.” During the shows leading up to this...

4.48 Psychosis, Royal Court review - powerful but déjà vu

Sarah Kane is the most celebrated new writer of the 1990s. Her work is provocative and innovative. So it seems oddly unimaginative to mark the...

The Buccaneers, Apple TV+, Season 2 review - American advent...

Edith Wharton hadn’t finished her novel, The Buccaneers, when she died in 1937, but it was completed in 1993 by Marion Mainwaring. The...

Red Path review - the dead know everything

Here’s a film you might not feel like seeing. After all, Red Path tells of a 14-year-old in Tunisia who is forced to carry home the...

Album: Loyle Carner - Hopefully!

Loyle Carner’s Hopefully! is a luminous, deeply personal exploration of fatherhood, identity, and artistic reinvention, marking the south...