When did the Rolling Stones play their first gig? Well, the story begins in the summer of 1962. Blues Incorporated, Alexis Korner’s band had a
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Def Leppard’s exuberant 1980 debut, On Through The Night, showed great promise and yielded unexpected UK Top 20 success, but its accomplished follow-up, High’n’Dry, banished
To paraphrase Tom Jones, it’s not unusual for anyone to make a great album – even two great albums – that don’t sell. It’s not
Few cities in the world match the musical heritage of Detroit, the home of Motown. Though the flagship city of Michigan state is renowned for
While most Summer Of Love stories focus on flocks of hippies heading to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco (as per Scott McKenzie’s hit “San
The up-and-coming phenomenon of Mersey Beat got its own name and magazine, when the fortnightly newspaper of that name published its first edition for the
The fifth solo album by Don Henley, Cass County, was a delightfully country-flavored return by a figurehead of modern American music. It’s the latest entry
June 1970 was a breakthrough month for Free. After two years of critical success and building their name as a live attraction, they were finally
Succinct and to the point, the title of Imagine Dragons’ third album, Evolve, said it all. The Las Vegas quartet arrived with a bang with
That’ll be Sir Roger Daltrey from now on. The Who frontman has been knighted by King Charles III as part of the monarch’s Birthday Honours.