Houses of the Holy was the first Led Zeppelin album not to be titled after the band and the first of the band’s albums to contain...
On 8th June in 1974, Wings started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with Band On The Run. The album went on...
The recording of Queen II was very different from that of Queen’s debut album; they were allocated their own studio time in August of 1973 and,...
It’s arguable that Sheer Heart Attack, rather than it’s predecessor, Queen II, or 1975’s A Night At The Opera, was Queen’s truly seminal album. Whether you...
In 1974 Genesis were coming off the back of their first British Top 10 studio album, Selling England By The Pound, and they had even had...
Physical Graffiti became the group’s fourth US No.1 album. On its first day of release in the US, the album shipped a million copies – no...
Looking back on the making of Born To Run, its maker Bruce Springsteen had this to say about it: ‘Born To Run had the feeling of...
In 1975, Pink Floyd started sessions at Abbey Road Studios in London for their next album, Wish You Were Here. How do you follow one of...
By the time they were ready to start work on their fourth album, Queen were both experienced and proficient in recording studio craft. Buoyed by the...
The three-chord guitar riff introduction, and ‘Hey! Ho! Let’s go!’ came the cry, a simple, catchy melody, and they were off. The Ramones created something that...
The genesis of the Animals album was in the writing rehearsals that produced Wish You Were Here. Working at Unit rehearsal studios, near London’s King’s Cross,...
Rumours tends to be remembered as the album that was characterised by personal strife between the band members, but what makes it worthy of note is...
Bat Out Of Hell is an album that’s excessive in every way; big, brash and loud – just like the singer. It’s 1978. Punk is rife,...
When they first came together in the summer of 1975, the Sex Pistols had no intention of releasing an album. ‘It was like: ‘Oh God. Isn’t...
Some Girls saw the Stones back with a bang, on an explosive mission to show the world’s ‘new punks’ who was boss. Playing faster and dirtier...