Links
Trips
Distant Trails. By Franck Zecchin. Hiking over the planet. Pics & tips.
Photo Roma. By the Montesanti family. Great photos of Italy.
StadtPanoramen. By Helmut Kölbach. Beautiful panoramas of Germany.
Der Harz in Bildern. By Raymond Faure. A unique collection of photos of the Harz region in Germany.
Joy Division
Joy Division Central. By Marko, Erik, Øyvind & Chris. Doubtlessly the most comprehensive site on JD!
Joy Division Shadowplay. By Chris Warren. A comprehensive site with a lot of information and images! Chris has since joined forces with JD Central.
Joy Division & New Order - In Between Days. By Gary Gardner. Was one of the most comprehensive sites on JD/NO, with Chris Warren's site and JD Central.
Joy Division - Interzone. By PurpleDove. Includes JD history, discography, images, lyrics, sounds.
Joy Division & New Order - World In Motion. By David Sultan. One of the most comprehensive sites on JD/NO.
New Order Online. By Sébastien Boisvert & Nicolas Leblanc. A lot of information related to New Order.
Cerysmatic Factory. Factory Records catalogue, posters, memorabilia.
The Crepuscule and Factory Pages. Factory Records, FBN & Les Disques du Crépuscule story.
New Wave Photos - Joy Division. By Philippe Carly. Great B&W photos of Joy Division by an expert.
Rock Photos - Punk/New Wave - Joy Division. By Steven Richards. Some other great B&W photos of JD.
Night rain, in winter.... Excellent article by Moondial-san on Closer, JD, the Staglieno and BP Wolff.
Peter Saville. The site of Peter Saville.
Manchester Digital Music Archive. Online community archive celebrating Manchester music, founded by Matthew Norman, Alison Surtees, Abigail Ward, Dave Rofe and CP Lee.
Incubation Arts - Joy Division & New Order. A permanent exhibition space for Joy Division/New Order.
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill - Sofa Sound. Official site. Including touring news, lyrics, PH comments, discography, merchandise.
Peter Hammill - Van Der Graaf Generator. By Phil Smart. Discography, gigography, images, reviews.
Peter Hammill & Van Der Graaf Generator - The Russian Site. By Serguei Petrouchanko. Comprehensive too.
Peter Hammill Angelfire Site. By Jim. News, bio, interviews, discography, concerts, images, reviews, etc.
New Wave Photos - Peter Hammill. By Philippe Carly. Some great B&W photos of PH.
Movies
IMDB. The Internet Movie Database. All about movies! What a Database!!
Robert Bresson - All is Grace. By Gary Morris. Short biography & filmography.
Ingmar Bergman. Official site.
Woody Allen - woodyallen.com. Quite comprehensive.
Clint Eastwood - clinteastwood.net. Quite comprehensive.
Classical Music
Musica Et Memoria. By Denis Havard de la Montagne. Bios, obituaries, organ, etc.
Bach Cantatas Website. Site on Johann Sebastian Bach's works with info on recordings and performers including short biographies.
Carlo Maria Giulini. By Jean-Yves Bras. Info on the great maestro including his comprehensive discography.
Georg Solti. Page dedicated to the great conductor.
Karl Richter. Official site.
Simon Rattle. Official site.
Kent Nagano. Official site.
Christoph Eschenbach. Official site.
Evgeny Svetlanov. Official site.
Mariss Jansons. Official site.
Alfred Brendel. Official site.
Murray Perahia. Official site.
Daniel Barenboim. Official site.
Alexandre Tharaud. Official site.
Hélène Grimaud. Official site.
Piotr Anderszewski. Official site.
Barry Douglas. Official site.
Tzimon Barto. Official site.
Paul Badura-Skoda. Official site.
Mitsuko Uchida. Official site.
Eugene Istomin. Official site.
Glenn Gould. Official site.
Nikolai Lugansky. Unofficial site.
David Fray. Official site.
Vadim Repin. Official site.
Frank Peter Zimmermann. Official site.
Alban Gerhardt. Official site.
Truls Mørk. Official site.
Juilliard Quartet. Official site.
Emerson Quartet. Official site.
Belcea Quartet. Official site.
Sine Nomine Quartet. Official site.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Unofficial site.
Hermann Prey. Official site.
Matthias Goerne. Official site.
Waltraud Meier. Official site.
Julia Varady. Unofficial site.
Orchestre de Paris. Official site.
Orchestre de Chambre de Paris (formerly Ensemble Orchestral de Paris). Official site.
Orchestre National de France. Official site.
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Official site.
Orchestre National de Lille. Official site.
Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. Official site.
Orchestre National de Lyon. Official site.
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg. Official site.
Philharmonia Orchestra. Official site.
London Philharmonic Orchestra. Official site.
London Symphony Orchestra. Official site.
Academy of Saint Martin In The Fields. Official site.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Official site.
English Chamber Orchestra. Official site.
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Official site.
Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Official site.
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Official site.
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. Official site.
Ensemble Vocal et Instrumental de Lausanne. Official site.
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Official site.
Tonhalle Orchester Zürich. Official site.
Budapest Festival Orchestra. Official site.
Wiener Philharmoniker. Official site.
Wiener Symphoniker. Official site.
Camerata Salzburg. Official site.
Berliner Philharmoniker. Official site.
Berliner Symphoniker. Official site.
Staatskapelle Berlin. Official site.
Staatskapelle Dresden. Official site.
Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig. Official site.
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg. Official site.
Bachacademie Stuttgart. Official site.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Official site.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Official site.
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Official site.
New York Philharmonic. Official site.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Official site.
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Official site.
Cleveland Orchestra. Official site.
Sport
Ajax Amsterdam. Official site.
Stefanie Graf - The original website. Steffi on and off the court.
Painters
Mark Harden's Artchive. Paintings / info on many great painters (Bacon, Beckmann, Bellini, Bonnard, Bosch, Boticelli, Brueghel, Caillebotte, Cézanne, Chagall, Chardin, Cimabue, Corot, Cranach, Daumier, De La Tour, Degas, Derain, Dürer, El Greco, Ernst, Fra Angelico, Gauguin, Géricault, Ghirlandaio, Giacometti, Giorgione, Giotto, Goya, Gris, Hals, Holbein, Jordaens, Klimt, Kokoschka, Le Nain, Leonardo, Lippi, Lotto, Manet, Mantegna, Martini, Matisse, Memling, Michelangelo, Miro, Modigliani, Monet, Munch, Murillo, Picasso, Piero della Francesca, Pissarro, Poussin, Raphael, Rembrandt, Renoir, Rodin, Rouault, Rubens, Ruisdael, Schiele, Sisley, Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Titian, Toulouse-Lautrec, Uccello, van Dyck, van Gogh, Vélazquez, Vermeer, Watteau, Weyden, Zurbaran...).
Fine Art Presentations. Paintings / info on many great painters.
ArtCyclopedia. Info on many great painters, paintings, links to museum sites.
Ciudad de la pintura. Info on many great painters, paintings, museums.
Virtual Exhibition Goya. Paintings by Francisco de Goya.
NGA - El Greco. Paintings by El Greco at the National Gallery of Art.
NGA - Frans Hals. Paintings by Frans Hals at the National Gallery of Art.
Edvard Munch at the Munch Museum. The Munch Museum in Oslo.
Rijksmuseum - Rembrandt van Rijn. Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum.
Schiele at the Leopold Museum. Egon Schiele at the Leopold Museum.
Chaïm Soutine at the Musée de l'Orangerie. Chaïm Soutine, paintings and info.
The Vincent van Gogh Gallery. By David Brooks. Paintings, letters, commentaries. A very comprehensive site on Vincent van Gogh.
The van Gogh Gallery. The other reference on the web for Vincent van Gogh.
Popular music (pop, rock, jazz...)
Chet Baker - The Essential. Comprehensive site.
David Bowie. Official site.
Jacques Brel. Official site.
Nick Cave. Official site.
The Church. Official site.
Johnny Clegg. Official site.
Leonard Cohen. Official site.
Leonard Cohen - The Leonard Cohen Files. By Jarkko Arjatsalo. Really comprehensive.
Alice Cooper. Official site.
Chick Corea. Official site.
Miles Davis. Official site.
Echo And The Bunnymen. Official site.
Bill Evans - The Web Pages. Comprehensive site.
The Fall. Official site.
The Fall. Unofficial (fan) site.
Peter Gabriel. Official site.
Bob Geldof - bobgeldof.info. Official site.
Stan Getz. Official site.
Jean Guidoni. By Eric Castaing. Unofficial site but quite comprehensive.
Jimi Hendrix. Official site.
The House Of Love. Official site.
INXS. Official site.
Keith Jarrett - ECM. Bio & discography.
Jethro Tull. Official site.
Midnight Oil. Official site.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - OMD. Official site.
Pere Ubu - The Home of Ubu Projex. Official site.
Michel Petrucciani - Dreyfus Records. Short bio & discography.
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. Official site.
The Pogues. Official site.
Iggy Pop. Official site.
Queen. Official site.
Lou Reed. Official site.
Stan Ridgway. Official site.
Max Roach. Bio, videos & images.
The Rolling Stones. Official site.
The Ruts. Short bio & a few pics.
Sting. Official site.
The Stranglers. Official site.
Tuxedomoon. Official site.
Tuxedomoon - The Discography. CDs, bootlegs.
U2. Official site.
The Velvet Underground Web Page. Bio, books, CDs, videos...
Tom Waits. Official site.
Roger Waters. Official site.
Wire. official site.
Miscellaneous
South Park
Rights For Kenny. "How'd you like to get killed brutally every week? ;-)".
Planearium - South Park. Another fan website (in german).
Personal note
Some years ago, the "links" list was much longer. But starting with the 2010s many personal / fan sites have disappeared: sites about musicians, movie directors, actors, painters, writers, athletes, etc.
It is sad to see all these sites disappearing, as they were built by passionate people who were often experts on their subject, taking on their personal time to share their passion, and occasionally having remarkable technical / design skills.
I guess this is caused by the hegemony of companies / sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, Google and so on.
Wikipedia have a really unappreciative external link policy, when there could have been room for everyone. Sites like Wikipedia are useful, but they are not less prone to errors / mistakes, omissions and sometimes biased views than personal sites. I believe that they should avoid claiming that they are more trustworthy than other sites: in that respect it is quite edifying to compare articles in different languages and notice major differences!
Regarding Facebook (and Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube, and co), the functional limitations make it difficult to offer what a comprehensive website does. Or it requires adding content on many of these different platforms and forces visitors to create accounts on each of them. Which benefits financially to ... them.
Last but not least comes Google. One should celebrate the performance and quality of the search engine, but clearly Google has made choices that have an impact on smaller websites which can become quickly almost invisible: less visibility means less visitors in a never ending vicious circle. Except if the webmaster is ready to pay ads to appear in the top search results, but this is very far from the dream of a free and enriching internet.