The Top 10 BEST Janis Joplin Songs Ever Recorded
If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes than holding back all the time – Janis Joplin The amazing legacy left to us in the form of Janis Joplin songs has made a life-altering impact on generations of people around the world – and to distil them down […]
The 10 BEST Peter Frampton Songs Ever Recorded
I think at some point I might have said it must be great to be as big as Elvis, but it wasn’t a realistic dream – Peter Frampton Peter Frampton might not be as famous as Elvis, but for a brief moment in the history of rock and roll, he came close. It’s almost impossible […]
The Definitive List Of The Top Ten Best Queen Album Covers Ever!
We’ve gone overboard on every Queen album. But that’s Queen… – Freddie Mercury The perfect symbiosis of music, literature, and art, Queen was a band unlike any that had come before them and any that have followed in their wake. Whether they were shaking the heavens with a thunder-filled performance that was built on amplification […]
25 Of The Best Elvis Presley Songs From The 1950s
I never expected to be anyone important – Elvis Presley The undisputed King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley changed the face of music forever when he appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on September 9th, 1956. Elvis may not have been the first musician to play rock and roll, but he was solely responsible […]
The Complete Pink Floyd Story: From The Piper At The Gates To Building The Wall
Either you write songs or you don’t. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there’s a natural desire to want to make records – Roger Waters It seems strangely appropriate that a band formed by architecture students in swinging sixties London would eventually become global superstars by building, and then tearing […]
Led Zeppelin – The Complete Story: Dazed, Confused, And A Whole Lotta Love
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone – Robert Plant Some bands are destined to write the songs that shape a generation, some bands are born to become rock stars and some bands are made to change the world. Led Zeppelin was one of the rare exceptions, as they managed to do all […]
The Rocks Off Top Ten List Of The Best Tina Turner Songs In History!
Physical strength in a woman – that’s what I am – Tina Turner The tired old myth that rock and roll is a young man’s game, was a worn-out cliche that had run its course and ran out of steam by the time the nineteen sixties rolled into view. Fed up with always being forced […]
Our Top Ten Best Beatles Songs List of 1965 – 1966
If we’d known we were going to be The Beatles, we’d have tried harder – George Harrison When Napoleon Bonaparte suggested that glory was fleeting, but obscurity is forever, he obviously didn’t forsee the impact The Beatles songs would have on the music industry, and the wider world. He couldn’t have imagined that in less […]
The Very Best Classic Rock Artists, Bands & Musicians Of All Time
Rock and roll is here to stay – Neil Young Lewis Carrol once said that there were six impossible things in life, but then Lewis never tried to assemble a list of the twenty-six greatest rock artists of all time. If he had, he’d have added another task to his list and increased the number […]
Squeeze – The Coolest of Cats
Music can lift the spirit, it can make you cry. Soldiers have marched into battle to music. It’s a powerful thing – Jools Holland While they didn’t manage to conquer America in quite the same way that the bands who led the First British Invasion during the nineteen sixties did, the flag bearers for the […]
Our Top Ten 3 Dog Night Songs List
When I was growing up, I didn’t know anything existed outside the borders of Buffalo – Cory Wells Some wise soul once said that if you want to see the real America, the only way to do it is on the road. It was advice that Cory Wells took to heart when he packed his […]
Heart: Ann & Nancy Wilson’s Five Decade Rock And Roll Odyssey
We’ve been around for a while, had a lot of success. Got a chance to sit around and go, “Oh yeah, we’re pretty good” – Nancy Wilson Ann and Nancy Wilson were a wild, untamed force of nature who proved that hard hard rock and heavy metal didn’t have to be a chest-beating exercise in […]