Christopher Sandford

Christopher Sandford grew up in London. Absorbing the harsh news that he would never play cricket for England, he started writing about it as an alternative. He's since published five books on the sport, as well as biographies of the likes of Mick Jagger, Kurt Cobain, Paul McCartney, Steve McQueen, and Roman Polanski. His book on the strange friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini is published by Palgrave. Christopher Sandford currently lives in Seattle.

My Night With The Rolling Stones

One of the pleasures of The Rolling Stones is that until recently they seem to have gotten by without a care for the bland pieties of the age. There have been no impassioned calls from them to end world hunger or get out of Iraq. Approached to perform at Live Aid in 1985, Keith Richards is said to ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini

When Harry Met Arthur

With Halloween upon us as well as a new television program based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writings, it's worth revisiting his spiritualist leanings and his contentious relationship with Harry Houdini. You probably think of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as a buttoned-up sort of chap, the epitome of a ...