Mott The Hoople and its fans were dealt a serious blow
when the group's drummer, Dale "Buffin" Griffin, passed away on
January 17, 2016. Not only was he a supe...
"I feel neglected, feel rejected/Living in the wrong time": that was a line written and sung by Ian Hunter on Mott The Hoople's Brain Capers album. It could be...
A convincing case could be made for Mott The Hoople
being the ultimate "hard luck kids" of rock and roll music. They were an influential band that could ...
Music genres never spontaneously come into existence. It's always a process of crossbreeding, both intentional and accidental, that causes a new form of popula...
Back in 2003, a compilation entitled Velvet Tinmine opened up a rich, unheralded vein of retro-rock nostalgia. It's called "junkshop glam" and that moniker ref...
Starting in the late '60s and continuing into the dawn of the '70s, the music business saw the musical style known as "rock & roll" mutating into what would...
Forget psychedelia or progressive rock: the most ambitious subgenre of rock and roll was glam rock. It's primarily thought of as a primarily English movement f...
The album All The Young Dudes occupies the critical turning point in the Mott The Hoople story. The patronage of Ziggy-era David Bowie and its importance to th...
There's a bitter irony in the Village People releasing a song entitled "Ready For The '80s" as one of their singles. Though they would soldier on via singles a...
Rock and roll developed within a cage provided by the music business, which attempted to apply a sense of traditional order to an art form designed to overthrow...
For the first few albums of the Move's lifecycle, Roy Wood was carrying the entire songwriting load of the project on his shoulders alone. To his credit, he did...
The integration of disco and orchestras was big business in the mid-'70s. At its best, this marriage of musical elegance and relentless groove perfected the gl...
