A SPLENDID TIME IS GUARANTEED FOR ALL

I seem to have something of a problem listening to Beatles' albums... I simply never do it. I have played the albums so many times from...

There’s a sub-genre (is that what we’d call it?) of music that seems to be still bandied around and yet I remain a little unsure of its...

I was about 13 or 14 when I first saw a documentary that was on TV late one Saturday night called "Heroes Of Rock N Roll" - I know it was...

While the 60s is normally cited as the era where the screaming teenager became a fully integrated symbol in the pop landscape, my...

Each new Bruce Springsteen album seems to come with the usual plaudits of "best since...." (insert relevant rock or acoustic album here)....

I confess to never having been much of a fan of Peter Gabriel. I had certainly never had much love for Genesis - with or without him for...

I appreciate that "the most important British 45 ever" is a big claim so perhaps it needs tempering with some equally British bathos. It...

U2 are a band it is difficult to be indifferent towards. They take themselves and what they do very very seriously and correspondingly,...

Genres are a funny thing in music... When they are kept at the very broad level, I'm fine - Soul, Rock, Pop, Jazz etc etc. I can even...

In the course of my travels since leaving the UK, I have been fortunate still to see some of my favourite artists in concert and these...

When I went to university, I had already had the best part of a year away from education. I did a little work experience at a newspaper,...

For those of us whose musical maturity emerged in the 80s, it is always something of a body blow when the decade's taste is written off...

I realise that even the title of this article sounds like one the Pet Shop Boys would happily give to one of their own new releases....

The Pet Shop Boys have been purveyors of fine electronic music for over 35 years. 35 years... They are the best selling musical duo in...

One of those unavoidable cliches you read in the music press is when they talk of the "difficult second album"; the album that is...

At the end of the month, Morrissey releases a new single. Well it's not a new single really but a live recording from a concert in...

With each new year inevitably comes a deluge of nostalgia. The toll of the midnight bell seems to offer a fixed point for us to compare...

Actually it's around fifty eight minutes but there's no need to quibble... One of the joys of Christmas, in the UK at least, was the...

It won't take me to point out that 2020 has been the strangest of years and it will doubtless be topped off by one of the strangest of...

Of course, I remember where I was... Because it was the first time I remember feeling so devastated. I had not suffered a personal...