The 40th Anniversary edition of Electric Warrior by T. Rex is presented with loads of extras, but the original 11 tracks are all anyone truly needs.
Given they were teen Mod rivals, pals and frustrated wannabes in the 1960s before both quickly bypassed mere stardom for glam rock superstar deity status, ...
Selecting two-dozen songs to sum up Bob Marley’s life, as a soundtrack to Kevin McDonald’s meticulously produced documentary Marley, was never going to be easy, and the choice was wisely left to immediate family members and former Island Records boss Chris Blackwell. Sensibly, they’ve opted for symbolic selections rather than ...
Thirty years ago, Paul Weller was number one. The Jam's A Town Called Malice spent three weeks at the top of the charts, its Motown bassline bustling, its finger clicks rustling. Watch its video now, and the 23-year-old at the middle of it has hardly changed in some ways. His ...
On Easy Money, the second song on Wrecking Ball, Bruce Springsteen does as he often does: he licks the air and takes the temperature of the age. "We’re going on the town now," he sings, "looking for easy money." He then adds that "When your whole world comes tumbling down… ...
From Tuskegee, Alabama, Lionel Richie was always a county boy at heart: that much was implicit by the narrative-heavy ballads that pepper his back catalogue and the countless countrified covers of Three Times a Lady. Here, his Stetson is truly out of the closet as he gives a collection of ...
The powers that be behind the Pink Floyd catalogue are not alone in assuming that someone, somewhere, doesn’t yet own one of this outfit’s certified classic LPs – also guilty are those ruling the canons of Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and… well, you get the idea. Some ...
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