Part 1: The Idea Robin Williams famously said cocaine was God’s way of telling you you’re making too much money. He might just as easily been referring to vinyl box sets, which are unashamedly a luxury item. The… Read More ›
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Lee Brilleaux: Rock n Roll Gentleman
January 1976. Dr Feelgood are tearing up venues across the UK. “Malpractice”, their second album has reached the top twenty. Eighteen months earlier they were still playing two shows a night because they needed the money. But lead singer Lee… Read More ›
Incredible Archive of Lost Photos Unearthed of Led Zep, Bowie, Rolling Stones…
In 2015 it’s only ironic hipsters who don’t have a camera on their phone, and every concert audience you attend is littered with people taking low quality photos, selfies and video footage on their smartphones. This has become an issue… Read More ›
The Rolling Stones: Just How Bad Is “Their Satanic Majesties Request”?
The final part of a quest to discover whether it’s worth buying those early Stones albums on vinyl… Their Satanic Majesties Request Trying to buy an original copy on vinyl of “Their Satanic Majesties Request” for twenty quid is like… Read More ›
An Idiots Guide To The First Six Rolling Stones Albums
Or, part one of a quest to discover whether it’s worth buying those early Stones albums on vinyl… We were in the pub. The conversation, a couple of hours in, had turned to how the skeleton of a dinosaur would… Read More ›
Why Sticky Fingers on Vinyl Isn’t Always A Bad Thing…
Ten reasons why The Rolling Stones’ Classic Sticky Fingers should be in your record collection Classic Rock Magazine this month is a particularly excellent read as it is a “Vinyl Special”. They have some things that regular readers of Every… Read More ›
New Ray Davies Biography: A Complicated Life by Johnny Rogan
Kinks fans have been spoiled of late with a number of books about the band, particularly as for many years there was no definitive Kinks bio. Both Davies brothers penned their own versions of the tale with Ray’s X-Ray and Dave’s… Read More ›
A Look at a Classic Tom Petty Tune: Walls (Circus)
Hidden away on the soundtrack to a relatively obscure indie flick that gave Jennifer Aniston one of her earliest (critically acclaimed) lead roles a couple of years into her reign as “Friends” Queen Rachel, Tom Petty wrote “Walls”. It’s one… Read More ›
John Lydon Reveals Sid Vicious Beauty Secrets In New Autobiography “Anger Is An Energy”
Alongside Iggy Pop, John Lydon is widely regarded as the Godfather of TV Adverts Punk. Lydon’s infamy was secured this week in 1976 when The Sex Pistols swore on the Bill Grundy TV show, and called him a “dirty old… Read More ›
The Recording of David Bowie’s “Heroes”
On the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, David Bowie’s “Heroes”, written and recorded at Hansa Studios just a few hundred yards from the Wall, remains a landmark recording and perhaps Bowie’s best-loved song. It is also… Read More ›
“One Of The Greatest Records Ever Made”: Dexys “Don’t Stand Me Down”
In March 1985, Kevin Rowland, lead singer and songwriter of Dexys Midnight Runners was facing total ruin. “Don’t Stand Me Down”, his labour of love and an album he had spent two years of his life writing, recording and mixing,… Read More ›
Help Launch Zoe Howe’s New Book About Lee Brilleaux!
Lee Brilleaux was the charismatic singer of Dr Feelgood. An Alpha Male and hard drinking front man, backed by a tight band, including the bug-eyed mop-topped Wilko Johnson. Wilko Johnson and Lee Brilleaux parted company at the height of their success,… Read More ›
Unreleased Gems: Neil Young’s Chrome Dreams – Rust Edition
Good news: Neil Young has announced a Record Store Day exclusive: a limited vinyl box-set re-release of his “Ditch Trilogy” of albums, plus Zuma. Sadly, however, there’s an album missing from that stellar line up. Chrome Dreams might well be… Read More ›
Wilko Johnson Attends Signing For LP with Roger Daltrey: Going Back Home
Fourteen months have passed since Wilko Johnson’s public announcement of his diagnosis of terminal cancer of the pancreas. The former Dr Feelgood guitarist and current National Treasure expected the cancer would claim him in October last year, but he’s nothing… Read More ›
The Best Records of 2014 so far: Bruce Springsteen – “The Ghost of Tom Joad”
Whilst the class of albums such as “Born To Run” and “Darkness on the Edge of Town” leap out like an over-enthusiastic Ant and Dec at the end of one of their celebrity “japes”, Springsteen’s later albums are perhaps more… Read More ›
Every record tells a story 