Top 10 Best Yes Album Covers Of All Time
The great thing about Yes is that it has always been flexible – Chris Squire Some bands come and go in the blink of any eye, while others possess a creative power and longevity that allows them to burn brightly and change the face of music forever. Yes were, and will always be one of […]
The Power Behind The Throne – Ric Lee And The Story Of Ten Years After
If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren’t really there – Paul Kantner Paul Kantner’s sentiment may have been earnest and well-meaning, but it simply wasn’t and isn’t true. The Jefferson Airplane guitarist might not have remembered much about the sixties and the part he played in helping to shape it. The majority […]
Our Top 10 List Of Triumph’s Greatest Ever Rock Songs!
Embed from Getty Images I think we’re going to try to do it every eleven years or so… Rik Emmett Triumph band, not motorbike, are undoubtably one of the greatest Canadian rock exports to ever grace our ears. Admittedly, with its high standard of living, rigid belief in equality and freedom for all of its […]
Our Top 10 Best Songs From The Legendary UFO Band!
We used to take Mandrax as if it were aspirin. We didn’t care… UFO There are rock bands who occasionally indulge in all of the vices that a life of rock and roll offers, and then there are rock bands who completely submerge themselves in those vices, who somehow manage to combine excess and genius […]
Jim Dandy & Black Oak Arkansas – The Top Ten Songs From All Albums!
I never went to college, I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It’s been a great adventure and I’ve outlived my adversaries. Jim “Dandy” Mangrum Tradition is important in Rock ‘n’ Roll. There’s a list of do’s and don’ts as long as the devils forked […]
Classic Rock Bands Index: Listed From A to Z
RATT Songs: The 10 Best The Band Ever Made (According To Us!)
By the time 1987 rolled around, the Sunset Strip was absolutely crazy. Stephen Pearcy If you ask any metal-head which band defined the decadence, sleaze, and glamor of the nineteen-eighties, the chances are that they’ll grin wistfully and reply in a hushed, almost reverential whisper “Motley Crue” or “Guns N Roses”. They were the heavy-hitters […]
Duran Duran’s Top Ten Best Songs: The Rocks Off List!
We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops Simon Le Bon That was the ideology that drove all of the members of Duran Duran and is the essence of all our favourite Duran Duran songs. They wanted to be THE band that everyone played in their final moments, they wanted […]
Our Top 10 Scorpions Band Songs: Germany’s Biggest Hard Rock Group
I think our music was never German, it’s always had this Anglo-American influence – we never tried to be a German band! Klaus Meine While it’s actually an anthem about peace and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Scorpions groundbreaking single and globally famous song Wind of Change could have been written about the […]
Mary Wells: The Inspiring ‘First Lady of Motown’
We all love a good “rags to riches” story. It can be so inspiring to read of someone who has overcome a tough start and then become a success in their chosen walk of life. Mary Wells did just that, rising from a childhood dogged by ill-health and poverty to being dubbed the ‘first lady […]
Long John Baldry: Pioneering British Blues Vocalist
John Baldry was born in 1941 and it soon became apparent that he was destined to be a tall guy. He was given the nickname ‘Long John’ in childhood, and when he grew to 6 feet 7 inches as an adult, the nickname just followed him through life. Long John had a voice that was […]
Tom Fogerty: The Driving Force Behind Creedence Clearwater Revival
A month before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and so brought the US into World War II, Tom Fogerty was born in Berkeley, California. Although there was no connection between the two events, it meant that Tom grew up in the post-war years when society and culture were changing. As a singer with a love […]