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‘Zombie Live’: Reliving Rob Zombie’s Hell-Raising Concerts
Recorded during the Educated Horses tour, ‘Zombie Live’ is a hair-raising document of Rob Zombie’s hell-raising live shows.
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‘Do You Really Want To Hurt Me’: Culture Club Become The Talk Of 1982
As the older generation tut-tutted about the image of a new kind of idol called Boy George, the song started its climb to No. 1.
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‘Some People Can Do What They Like’: Robert Palmer Goes His Own Way
In 1976, Palmer’s third album ‘Some People Can Do What They Like’ became his most successful to date.
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‘Crazy’: Patsy Cline Creates An All-Time Country Classic
Patsy recorded Willie Nelson's song just two months after a car crash that nearly killed her, and one of the most famous of all country songs was born.
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Natural Born Bassman: Spooky Tooth And Humble Pie’s Greg Ridley
Before he was 22, Ridley had been a co-founder of two key British bands of the late 1960s, Spooky Tooth and Humble Pie.
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‘Red’: How Taylor Swift Made Her Move Towards Global Pop Domination
A transitional album that moved closer to pop than ever before, ‘Red’ nevertheless saw Taylor Swift retain her unique confessional intimacy with her fans.
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‘A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing’: How Black Sheep Stood Out From The Herd
With ‘A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing,’ Black Sheep made a classic laced with satire and sarcastic, acrid wit.
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When Carpenters Went Head To Head With Punk, On ‘Passage’
Carpenters’ 'Passage' was a victim of timing. Released in October 1977 when the world was going punk, Carpenters still made the plushest pop.
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Cream Wrap Up The Charts With Their First Single
Released by Reaction Records in early October 1966, Cream's first single, 'Wrapping Paper,' was a piece of whimsical jazz-influenced pop.
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‘Beautiful Day’: The Dawn Of A New Era For U2
After experimenting with electronic music and writing darker and more abrasive songs throughout the 90s, U2 returned to form with the soaring ‘Beautiful Day.’
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The Digital Music Revolution: From The MP3 To Music-Is-Free
From the advent of MP3s to the births of Napster, iTunes and the streaming revolution, the shift to digital music forever changed the way we experience music.
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Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Good Kid, mAAd City’: A Lesson In Storytelling
Kendrick Lamar unleashed 'Good Kid, mAAd City' in 2012. The album not only holds a place in the hip-hop canon, but it also shifted the culture.
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‘Night Moves’: Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band’s Classic
‘Night Moves’ was Bob Seger’s first album with The Silver Bullet Band. Promoting him to superstar status, it sold over six million copies in the US.
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‘Hotter Than Hell’: How KISS Turned Up The Heat With Their Second Album
An attempt to “remedy the deficiencies” of their debut, ‘Hotter Than Hell’ found KISS working up a collection of fiery future classics.
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‘Snap!’: The Jam Crackle On Their First Hits Retrospective
Ten months after Paul Weller announced that the trend-setting band were splitting up, their name was back in the bestsellers with their first hits retrospective, ‘Snap!’
