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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...
The occasional lapse into white-boy reggae aside, The Clash’s masterpiece was all the better for the fact that it transcended punk. Ska, rockabilly and jazz all...
If ever there was an album that created a triumph out of a tragedy, it was Back In Black. The band had slogged their way from...
“You know when astrologers talk about a planetary line-up?” Iron Maiden’s singer Bruce Dickinson once mused. “Like, ‘this conjunction only happens once in a blue moon’,...
1 January 2021, Mick Bolton, the keyboardist best known for playing with Mott the Hoople and Dexys Midnight Runners died age 72. During the 80’s Bolton...
1986 was make or break time for Bon Jovi. After their self-titled, debut album in 1984 had put them firmly into the trench, everyone took it...
On 31st January 1987, Paul Simon went back to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Graceland’, the singer-songwriters seventh solo album. The album brought Simon...
Back in the 1980’s, U2 under-took a gruelling nine-month tour following the release of The Unforgettable Fire, which took in 54 US dates and led to...
