Tag: Hard Rock
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Listen Here: When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth: Dad Rock in the 1970s
Every Record Tells A Story presents: A Blog You Can Listen To… You can listen to all the music mentioned in this post via the Mixcloud player above, or if that isn’t working click on this link and the Mixcloud player will open in a new tab. Click the Mixcloud player link above, and read…
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Could Heavy Rock Be Just A Teeny-Weeny Bit Sexist?
I’m putting heavy rock on trial! Have your say! 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 the cases for and against. At…
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The Top Ten Best Song Titles – Blue Öyster Cult Special
2012 was the 40th anniversary of the release of the first album by Blue Öyster Cult. Blue Öyster Cult: a band who (importantly) pioneered the use of superfluous umlauts above rock bands’ names (see Mötorhead, Mötley Crüe, Queensryche) – hold a prominent and much loved place (not that they know it) in my Beginner’s Guide…
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UFO – Strangers In The Night
When UFO played Knebworth in 1985 I was blown away by their hard rock sound. UFO were named after the famed psychedelic club that spawned Pink Floyd and even in 1985 they had been going longer than Sharon Osbourne’s Botox treatments. Their set at Knebworth displayed their back catalogue to the full. It was a set loaded…
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