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The Decades series looks at a specific decade in the life of a band or artist. Keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman is one of the most talented and influential musicians and composers to have graced the world of popular music. He is also one of...

Released in 1969, Let it Bleed was The Rolling Stones’ eighth studio album (tenth in the USA). The second in a sequence of four consecutive records that comprised their creative peak, it is considered by many to be their best. After a period of...

Some albums are simply undeniable watersheds in an artist’s career. Artistic or commercial triumphs (or sometimes both), but most importantly seen by both the fanbase and, to a greater or lesser degree the wider world, as a defining statement in their catalogue. Such was...

The Decades series looks at a specific decade in the life of a band or artist. With a succession of hit singles, including eight UK top twenty hits and two number ones, sell-out tours and six studio albums, Suzi Quatro was an enduring presence...

The On Track series examines an artist’s entire output, track by track – or that within a specified date range – the series brings together expert analysis with both fact and opinion. Bursting out of industrial Birmingham in the late 1970s and hitching a...

The On Track series examines an artist’s entire output, track by track – or that within a specified date range – the series brings together expert analysis with both fact and opinion. Towards the tail end of the 1980s, Neil Hannon: a talented singer/songwriter...

The mid-20th century saw the birth of a new kind of big band/orchestral music in what came to be called ‘Easy Listening’. Like its contemporary, rock ‘n’ roll, it took the world by storm, introducing romance and chic into a world brutalised by war....

The On Track series examines an artist’s entire output, track by track – or that within a specified date range – the series brings together expert analysis with both fact and opinion. Dinner with David Bowie, kissing with Jackie Wilson, close encounters with Iggy...

The On Track series examines an artist’s entire output, track by track – or that within a specified date range – the series brings together expert analysis with both fact and opinion. Most lauded for the gorgeously baroque Odessey and Oracle, and the ageless...

The Decades series looks at a specific decade in the life of a band or artist. After the singularity of Astral Weeks in 1968, the 1970s were the formative years for the solo career of one of the acknowledged giants of modern music. Van...

The Decades series looks at a specific decade in the life of a band or artist. When Yes ran into problems recording their tenth album in Paris at the end of 1979, it was almost the end. Yet in the 80s the band rallied,...