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...
The Move was a success at home, with a string of hit singles from their inception and a top-20 album in 1968, a year where competition on the U.K. charts was do...
Amongst aficionados of English rock, knowledge of The Move is a topic that separates the professionals from the dilettantes. They were a phenomenon in their ho...
Sweet had a long road to respectability as rockers. Like a lot of young acts in the U.K. during the late '60s and early '70s, they made a bid for music busines...
It is one of several bitter ironies in the Mott The Hoople story that they delivered the finest album of their Island Records era at a time when they felt forgo...
