Anyone with the impulse to write about music, DJ or collect will essentially deal in the currency of “if you like that wait until you hear this”. If not that then maybe “if you think that track’s groundbreaking wait until I show you where they got the idea from”. We collectors spend our time, every… Read more

The Beatles story is arguably the most enduring in music history and it always seems to keep on giving. At the centre of it all was the creative partnership between Lennon and McCartney which was pretty much over by 1969. Following their bust up and subsequent 1971 song attacks on each other a truce was… Read more

This months cover star is Marizanne Kapp, a South African cricketer who really impressed during the first ever final of the women’s Hundred tournament this month. I thought it was a top drawer sporting spectacle really, no matter what all the Cricket purists might have to say. Kapp drove the Oval Invicibles to victory with… Read more

As the country has effectively removed all Covid restrictions, the past month has seen some large crowds return to sporting events some of which have been particularly memorable. The England football team reached the final of a major tournament for the first time in 55 years, they lost on penalties inevitably but for a brief… Read more

Cover star Paul McCartney was a Beatle. The Beatles are probably the number one band at Fruit Tree Records and they almost certainly always will be. Their adventure in songwriting and music progression, with particular emphasis on melody and lush major/minor chord progressions are at the very heart of what this site and its decades… Read more

Summer’s here and the time is right to launch the Fruit Tree Records website…. it’s all about the music! Read more