Tag: Rock History

After the success of last year’s Sgt Pepper remix reissue, this 50th anniversary edition of my favourite Beatles album was ...

Prog! ...

Mention Styx online and chances are you are going to be trolled. But for a time, the pop-rock quintet were ...

If you’ve missed it, I’ve covered the primary colours of Power Pop, Pop and Pop-Rock thus far. Last but not ...

It’s been a while since we talked about the key components of Power Pop Rock N Roll. You can catch ...

PRETENDERS “Back on the Chain Gang” (off the album, Learning to Crawl) ...

When Roxy Music first appeared in the early 70s, they were the consummate art-rock combo. ...

80s music powerhouse Tears For Fears return with a greatest hits compilation which includes two new songs viz. the anthemic “I ...

1971 – Never a Dull Moment: Rock’s Golden Year by David Hepworth My rating: 3 of 5 stars The story ...

Last time out, we took a closer look at POWER POP in our analysis of the key genres that make ...

We love analysing our favourite music, which as it now stands, we apply the all-encompassing term POWER POP ROCK N ...

Like most artists that emerged during the post-punk/new wave era, Elvis Costello suffers from the same dilemma, that is, of ...

Considering that rock legend Bruce Springsteen is famous for his lyrical genius, the very idea of a Springsteen memoir is ...

Back in 1980, singer-songwriter Billy Joel was already railing against the stratification of rock & pop music. ...

The legendary David Bowie passed away on 10th January 2016, mourned by music lovers worldwide. On what would have been his ...

Rhythm & Blues is the bedrock of much of modern rock and pop music. Basically R&B is a genre of popular ...

The 80s was a special time for rock music as the aftermath of punk in the late 70s resulted in ...

As the title of his autobiography Not Dead Yet suggests, singer/drummer/producer/actor/film composer Phil Collins is a bit of a joker. ...

2016 will forever be notorious for the number of celebrity deaths that occured during its 12 months.  We are not ...

The Kinks is a band that deserve more recognition than they have received. Although never quite valued in the same ...

A furious debate typically surrounds the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame when it announces its annual inductees. In 2017, ...

With the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President-Elect of the USA, commentators have remarked that perhaps this era ...

In the 1950s, at the dawn of rock ’n’ roll and the apex of hipster jazz music, album covers were ...

A light-hearted post ‘celebrating’ the album covers which for some reason were set in the lavatory! Check ’em out!! MILLIE ...

In our humble opinion, the Nineties represented perhaps the final great rock decade before being utterly overwhelmed by hip-hop music ...