While House is an easily identifiable musical genre which emanated from Chicago in the early 80s and is traceable back to hi-NRG, European synthpop and…
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In the halcyon years of the ‘British Invasion’ of America – 1964 and 1965 – who were the two most successful acts? Well The Beatles were obviously…
The mid-90s was a golden era for British music, with several fine bands all coming good at the same time. There was, though, little camaraderie…
On 14 September 1968, The Archie Show, a Saturday morning TV cartoon show, made its debut on CBS in America. The show was a Don Kirshner creation…
The major new movement which began in the USA in 1975 and would spread its influence worldwide, was disco music. Originally regarded by many as…
1955 saw the rise to prominence of several black vocal groups in the USA. Amongst them were; The Orioles (their 1948 hit It’s Too Soon To…
When The Turtles entered the Billboard Top 40 on 21 August 1965 with a cover of It Ain’t Me Babe that turned Bob Dylan’s hip put-down into a cheery pop tune and…
Garage rock, garage punk, garage psychedelia . . . call it what you will, but the operative word was ‘garage’. It was music often literally…
The story of the ‘girl group’ sound, which reached its commercial and artistic peak in the early and mid-60s, is not just the story of…
Glam Rock laughed in the face of the pompous pseudo-intellectualism that was becoming prevalent in the music world in the early seventies. It declared war…
“Bela Lugosi’s dead, undead, undead…” intoned Peter Murphy on the single that released a new genre – not to mention a fair scattering of bats…
The early 1990s was the brief era of Grunge – a rock music genre which eventually faded after the public grew bored with the I-despise-success…
Fine in principal, but not quite in practice; The Heavy Metal crowd consistently ruled much of the 80’s, which is why there was ‘alternative music’…
Disco never died in the Windy City, and House Music was born in Chicago in the early 1980s. At that time, there were no clubs…
For those who were there in 1971, the shock of seeing Faust’s eponymous debut LP remains starkly etched in the mind’s eye. You could see right…
Madchester (so named because it originated in Manchester in the north of England) was the dominant force in British rock during the late 80s and…
Let’s get one thing clear before we begin: The Beatles did not create Merseybeat, it created them. And although they are by far the most famous of…
Summer 1978 – England: Two years on, punk has exploded from its roots in grubby Sex Pistols gigs to shock exposés, hit singles, high street fashion and cartoon punks…
Each decade of popular music so far has its merits and its embarrassments. But perhaps the most derided of them all is the Eighties. Looking…
New Wave is often remembered more for skinny ties and silly haircuts than for musical merits. The Police, Elvis Costello, The Cars and Blondie all lent some respect to the genre,…