A SPLENDID TIME IS GUARANTEED FOR ALL

One of my prime purposes in putting my meagre musical musings down to share with you has always been to shed light on those once-loved...

A very good friend and correspondent of this humble blog gets particularly excitable around the question of the greatest year in pop...

Oh no... there's another one of those critics' lists - a new Rolling Stone Magazine "Top 500 Albums Of All Time". That's guaranteed to...

When I was looking for a job as a soon to be graduate trainee, one of the places I interviewed had a hiring mantra - as the job spent so...

For those of you who have kindly put up with my ramblings on matters pop, it is fairly obvious that my inclination is to the musical...

The history of Rock & Roll is littered with tales of sibling rivalry - stories that would shadow Cain and Abel and more often than not,...

I'm fairly certain that I am going to run into some flak for my opening assertion in this submission but I really really think "(Sittin'...

Those of you who know me know there's few things I enjoy more than a great pop trivia question and last week, with thanks to some fellow...

Rock fans all over the world this week mourned the sad passing of guitar legend Eddie Van Halen. Now I have written about Van Halen in...

I have to confess to being quite excited about an upcoming release which for those of you who already know my predilection for digging...

I have no real desire to turn this blog into a forum for debate for anything other than musical opinions and so am always careful not to...

They say that you should never place too much store by what critics write and yet I find it is often the grit that pushes me to advocate...

I would rather avoid courting any early controversy and so am excluding The Bible or any other spiritual text from this next Muso Musing...

Bruce Springsteen is an artist constructed for all of his influences - Elvis, Spector, Johnny Cash, Stax Records and the list goes on. It...

Considering music has such a pivotal role in the creativity of movie-making, I often find myself largely disappointed at the choices that...

For a long time, keen chart observers were regularly notified about the fact that Elton John had never had a solo number one in the UK....

One or two of you might remember that the mission of my previous (now lost in cyber-space) blog was to dig out albums that everybody used...

I came across a great book the other day, which was actually published a few years ago, called "A Scene In Between" which is a great...

It is sometimes easy to forget just how powerful and all-pervading Disco was a genre. The launch of "Saturday Night Fever" set loose a...

I have always felt that the main purpose of this blog was to persuade even the smallest fraction of what readership there is to revisit...