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He was literally instrumental in the early days of rock’n’roll and influenced a generation of future guitar figureheads. They ranged from Jimmy Page and Hank...

When Cryptic Writings was released, on June 17, 1997, Megadeth were riding the crest of a commercial wave. In 1992, Countdown To Extinction had seen...

Novelty or not? That was the question people asked of Katy Perry during her breakthrough. “I Kissed A Girl” is the sort of song that,...

Jerry Lee Lewis’ arrival on Mercury Records continued his exploration of the country sound that had always been part of his musical make-up. He had...

On Wednesday, June 17, 1964, pianist Herbie Hancock went into Van Gelder Studio, in New Jersey, to record what became Empyrean Isles, his fourth album...

Exploitative, unconscionable, and usually divorced from conventional notions of taste, so-called death discs (or “splatter platters”) can be hard to defend: but for discerning ghouls...