August 2024

The live legend of Elton John is almost as time-honored as his career itself. After he had paid untold dues to get himself taken seriously...

Next to the great George Gershwin, no other American composer can claim to have worked across as many musical genres, except for Leonard Bernstein. A...

In the closing months of the 1970s, Capitol Records had its fastest-selling debut release in the US since The Beatles’ “I Want To Hold Your...

A world without Rob Zombie’s macabre “spookshow international” is not a world that any sane person should want to be part of. It’s nigh-on impossible...

In 1980, producer Reinhold Mack went straight from making The Game, arguably Queen’s crowning achievement, to recording Billy Squier’s blockbuster breakout album, Don’t Say No....

Jimmy Smith wasn’t the first organist in jazz – Fats Waller, Count Basie, and Wild Bill Davis all preceded him – but he was the...