Surf Music In terms of commercial impact, Surf Music was a short-lived phenomenon. The vast majority of popular surf recordings were waxed…
Skiffle Without skiffle there might have been no Quarrymen and hence no Beatles. Seen in retrospect on television, skiffle can seem entertaining…
New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) In the early 1980s, UK rock magazine Sounds ardently promoted (and christened) the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal - the acronym…
Soul The early and middle 60s are remembered by many as the time when The Beatles, Stones and big British beat took the world…
Goth "Bela Lugosi's dead, undead, undead..." intoned Peter Murphy on the single that released a new genre - not to mention…
Pub Rock The full story of Pub Rock can be read in Will Birch's excellent book No Sleep Till Canvey Island (Virgin). In it,…
Punk In 1977, merely suggesting that the Queen was a moron (or a potential H Bomb) would get you banned from…
Ska In the early 1960s, Jamaican producers such as Leslie Kong, Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd and Duke Reid created a new sound…
