Returning – this time second on the bill – to a stage they headlined two years ago when they first reformed, Soundgarden unveiled something a little different at Hyde Park yesterday. Having supported Black Sabbath throughout the latest stretch of… Read More ›
Let’s face it, even if he had lived fast and died young, he’d never have had a good looking corpse, so it’s just as well Lemmy has been as good at Grim Reaper-dodging as anyone. Having left Hawkwind ostensibly not… Read More ›
I’m going to take a quick look at some obscure recordings by The Black Crowes, but if your interest in this band has inexplicably yet to stretch to their officially released recordings (and apparently there are one or two people… Read More ›
In September 1991 Guns n Roses released their double-double album set “Use Your Illusion”. A week later Nirvana released Nevermind. As GnR peaked and fell into a squabbling decline, by January 1992 Cobain and co topped the US charts and… Read More ›
The Marquee Club, London. June 1990. I was there to see a band I had only ever read about, who were on the tiny stage just three feet in front of me, lean as rakes, hungrily playing up a storm… Read More ›
What with Prince mid-way through a hit and run tour in the UK playing small venues like a one man musical Bonnie and Clyde (he played the Roundhouse this week), it appears that funk – and its offshoot genre funk… Read More ›
Want to know why some Led Zeppelin vinyl LPs sounded better than most other rock LPs? Read on… It is received wisdom that the earliest Led Zep UK pressings – with a plum and red label, rather than the later… Read More ›
The forthcoming reissues of Led Zeppelin will probably cost, oh, at least a few pounds. Or something. So before we all trample over London’s tourists like brainwashed consumers in a desperate panic to buy new vinyl in whatever is left… Read More ›
The news that Jimmy Page has completed his work remastering Led Zeppelin’s back catalogue bodes well for a 2014 release. Page has confirmed this, saying to Rolling Stone Magazine that the first three Led Zeppelin albums will be released in… Read More ›
It’s Official: Heavy rock is found guilty of bad clothing, terrible videos and it’s definitely sexist – but they wrote their own songs, and we love the singers! For those poor, misguided regular readers of Every Record Tells A Story… Read More ›
Twenty years ago today rock lost one of its finest singers: Ray Gillen. In his all too short career Gillen had the distinction of recording an album with Black Sabbath – only for his vocals to be wiped and replaced… Read More ›
Twenty five years on from the peak of heavy rock’s commercial popularity in 1988, this series asks why heavy rockers no longer dominate the charts and seeks to highlight the crimes that Heavy Rock is accused of, and give you… Read More ›
Twenty five years on from the peak of heavy rock’s commercial popularity in 1988, this series asks why heavy rockers no longer dominate the charts and seeks to highlight the crimes that Heavy Rock is accused of, and give you… Read More ›
I’m putting heavy rock on trial! Have your say! Whatever Happened To My Rock n Roll Part 7 Twenty five years on from the peak of heavy rock’s commercial popularity in 1988, this series asks why heavy rockers no longer… Read More ›
Welcome to Classic Rock Magazine readers! The exciting news this month (well, for me anyway. I don’t know about you. It’s probably not that exciting for you…) is that I was contacted by Classic Rock Magazine who wanted to run… Read More ›
