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It may have taken several months for the wider world to cotton on, but when Guns N’ Roses’ epochal debut album, Appetite For Destruction, landed,...

Yusuf Islam, the artist born Steven Georgiou and still best known to the world as Cat Stevens, was born in London on July 21, 1948....

“All great music is a combination of what came before it,” musician/songwriter/arranger/producer Clarence McDonald once said. He spent his life mastering gospel, soul, jazz, blues,...

In the wake of Nirvana’s all-conquering success with Nevermind, Sonic Youth’s decision to work with producer Butch Vig seemed at first a calculated attempt to...

The ironic album portrait may have suggested otherwise, but life was anything but boring for Rod Stewart in 1972. After endless toil, he had made...