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As the 21st century dawned, the odds were stacked against Spice Girls. First, their solo careers had got off to great starts – with Mel...

Traditionally, live albums are hit-and-miss affairs. A few (Thin Lizzy’s Live And Dangerous and The Who’s Live At Leeds) are little short of transcendent, but...

ABBA’s international fortunes had been somewhat faltering after their Eurovision triumph with “Waterloo” in 1974. But by late 1977, they were on an unstoppable roll,...

Everyone mourned Freddie Mercury’s death at the age of 45 at his home in Kensington on the evening of November 24, 1991. Five months later,...

If Lady Gaga has an abundance of anything, it’s ideas. Following The Fame and Born This Way, she sought to craft a more free-form, message-light...

Never the most straightforward of bands, by 1977 Gong was represented by two radically different incarnations. One of them, trading as Pierre Morlen’s Gong, was...