"In the whole history of Liverpool music two bands matter most, one is The Beatles and the other is Deaf School." These are ...
I had the honor of meeting and speaking with Quincy Jones a dozen times during the seventies and eighties. I remember our ...
These cult classics were torn apart by music critics with horrible reviews upon their release; and one even got banned.
The 30th anniversary of The Charlatans’ third album, ‘Up To Our Hips’, is marked with the release of an expanded edition this ...
He interviewed three of The Beatles in person ... “Ray Coleman, the editor of Melody Maker, and later Lennon’s biographer, had promised to introduce us. John planned to come to London ...
Robert Smith dismissed his band’s second-highest charting single as a boozy aberration. But it may have saved The Cure from ...
Badfinger were the band who, above most others, had a direct line to The Beatles, in the months immediately before and after the split of the world’s most famous group. There’s no denying the ...
You really couldn't make it up": Yes, a band you considered at the forefront of synth technology used a toy beat maker. And a pretty terrible one ... Kraftwerk's ridiculously unmatched knack for ...
After starting at Melody Maker, he’s written for other specialist music mags ... and written books on the solo Beatles, U2 and The Who. He’s ghosted Ledley King’s memoirs and edited an anthology of ...
Members of a loose aggregation of hardcore Pistols aficionados dubbed the “Bromley Contingent” by Melody Maker journalist ... an eerie deconstruction of The Beatles’ “Helter Skelter ...
The Beatles' song "Now and Then" has earned two Grammy nominations, raising some eyebrows in the industry because the ...
The way that the three remaining Beatles got a handle on the strange vibe of being in a studio together again without John Lennon in 1994 was to pretend he was actually part of the session and had ...