News

One look at ‘Sonic Temple’s arresting cover art in 1989 was all it took to let you know that The Cult were bona fide rock stars. With Billy Duffy’s legs clad in leather trousers in an impossibly wi...

Let’s be quite clear from the off; The Who are one of the greatest bands in rock history. Whether the early pop perfection of ‘The Kids are Alright’, or later stadium anthems like ‘Won’t Get Fooled...

Titled ‘A Kind of Magic’, the set wouldn’t appear until the summer of 1986, and would find Queen finding inspiration on the silver screen. Back in the soundtrack business having scored ‘Flash Gordo...

With such a run of greatness, it’s easy to forget ‘Down on the Upside’, which followed in 1996. The final release from their original tenure, it is however, a dark horse of an album, and in the gra...

The band’s sixth long player, released in 1975 ‘Physical Graffiti’ was their first - and only - double studio album, and the first to be released under their own Swan Song imprint. Collecting newly...

Originally conceived as a solo project by Ashcroft, ‘Urban Hymns’ was a new start for the Wigan outfit. Forming in 1990, the singer was joined by guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones and drum...

Ozzy was the story, but there was however, more to the (at the time) former Black Sabbath front man than his overshadowing antics would suggest, and as the 1990s rolled around, something had to be ...

Conceived a few short years after the final fallout from their messy and exhausting litigative split from co-founder and creative force Roger Waters, ‘The Division Bell’ marked a new beginning for ...

Released an astonishing half century ago, it is rightly regarded as not only one of the Brixton boy’s defining works, but as one of the most important albums of a generation. More than just a styli...