Gentle Giant, the excellent progressive rock band with an excellent run from 1970 until 1980, produced a series of great and enduring albums for several labels. In fact, over the…
Back in 1986, a surprise international hit arrived on radios, and MTV’s video days, called “Breakout”. The song was from Swing Out Sister, a three-member band from Manchester (UK), currently…
Suzi Quatro, although born in the US, earned her Rock and Roll stripes in the UK. With a string of hits, songs that many of us here in the States…
If you watch classic films (films like the Pink Panther), then you have heard Henry Mancini in one form or another. His composition brilliance is world renowned. Mancini’s most revered…
Not all great guitarists are/were named Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck. While those are just a few names that easily pop into the mind when…
Over the years, Wishbone Ash has taken several identities, some necessitated by eventual departures. When the original quartet was shaken by the departure of Ted Turner after the issue of…
In 2013, prior to the release of his newest solo effort, Lion (2014), Peter Murphy toured the US and Europe on his Mr Moonlight Tour. During this three-month tour, Murphy,…
I actually know people who consider the dividing line between the great Jethro Tull albums from the ones that they considered not to be up to par as the one…