Hard Rock

An Analysis of The Lyrics to ZZ Top’s Ten Foot Pole

By Every Record Tells A Story on July 1, 2013 • ( 21 )

“I bet you can’t work out these lyrics” said a friend in 1986, holding a copy of ZZ Top‘s El Loco album with an evil glint in his eye. I guessed it couldn’t be too tricky. Child’s play. The sort… Read More ›

Masters of Reality – Live at O2 Islington Academy – Review

By Every Record Tells A Story on June 19, 2013 • ( 8 )

Masters of Reality played the O2 Islington Academy last night and gave the performance I had been waiting twenty five years to see, with a powerful, career spanning set. I have seen Masters of Reality twice before. The first… Read More ›

Rock’s Greatest “Lost” Records of the Eighties: #1 – Masters of Reality – Blue Garden

By Every Record Tells A Story on June 15, 2013 • ( 25 )

Masters of Reality – Blue Garden There’s only one thing better than discovering new music and new bands: and that’s discovering old music and old bands that you have not heard before. (NB. There are of course many things… Read More ›

Queens of The Stone Age Like Clockwork Josh Homme

Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork Review

By Every Record Tells A Story on May 31, 2013 • ( 9 )

June 2003. As I was carried above the heads and outstretched hands of an ecstatic Brixton Academy audience, (hoping no-one would a) grab me in a delicate place b) drop me or c) pick my pocket) crowd-surfing for the first… Read More ›

A Look At The Haunting And Sensitive Poetry of… Whitesnake

By Every Record Tells A Story on May 28, 2013 • ( 21 )

Whitesnake. Fronted by David Coverdale, and best known for their eighties videos featuring Coverdale’s then-girlfriend, the actress Tawny Kitaen who fetchingly writhed on Coverdale’s car whilst risking catching her death of cold by not wearing very much. All shaggy flowing… Read More ›

Kings X – This Band Was Once The Future Of Rock

By Every Record Tells A Story on March 30, 2013 • ( 109 )

Twenty five years ago – on March 28 1988, Kings X released their debut album Out Of The Silent Planet out into a very noisy world. The majority of the planet was busy making lots of noise, and has still… Read More ›

Steven Tyler: “Like An Au Pair Girl Doing The Hoovering”

By Every Record Tells A Story on February 26, 2013 • ( 16 )

When Aerosmith had toured the UK in 1976 they hadn’t gone down well. The gigs were promoted with the slogan “Hey Britain, wake up! This is America’s greatest rock n roll band!” Britain, of course loves to be told that… Read More ›

Aerosmith: That “Difficult Eighth Album”

By Every Record Tells A Story on February 23, 2013 • ( 26 )

The re-birth of Aerosmith in the late eighties appeared to happen overnight. However, Done With Mirrors was the comeback album that didn’t quite get them where they wanted to be. It took a couple of attempts before the nation was… Read More ›

When Rock Star Wives Fight: How Aerosmith Broke Up Over Spilled Milk And Room Service Bills

By Every Record Tells A Story on February 19, 2013 • ( 7 )

Aerosmith‘s 2012 “comeback” album Music From Another Dimension! received very mixed reviews. (When I say “mixed”, that’s a euphemism for “it was widely dismissed by the critics”). Perry and Tyler appeared on the Jonathan Ross chat show in the UK… Read More ›