Steely Dan ‘Black Friday’ Dawns For Steely Danudiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton Steely Dan were making their usual strides up the American album chart on 24 May 1975, as they paid another of their visits to the singles scene. As …
Play buttonMusic Uncaged Soul: How Sting Broke Free In The 80sudiscovermusic.com - Sam Armstrong The Police may have formed during punk’s Year Zero, 1977, but with Sting at the helm they soon transcended the genre’s three-chord limitations. By …
Play buttonMusic ‘Revolution’: The Story Behind The Songudiscovermusic.com - Paul McGuinness “There were three ‘Revolutions’,” John Lennon explained in 1971, “two songs and one abstract. I don’t know what you’d call it… musique concrète, loops …
Music Barry White Delivers His Soulful Promiseudiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton Barry White had amassed some track record by the spring of 1975. The R&B record books showed him with seven consecutive top five soul hits in just …
Play buttonMusic How The Beatles’ ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ Changed The Face Of Musicudiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers These days, game-changers are everywhere, in every facet of our society, yet there was a time when people really had no idea what they were. In 1967 …
Play buttonDavid Bowie David Bowie’s Debut Album: Going Back To Where It All Beganudiscovermusic.com - Jason Draper Born on 8 January 1947, David Bowie was 20 by the time he released his self-titled debut album, on Deram, on 1 June 1967. By then he had already made …
Play buttonRockabilly How The Queen Of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson, Stole The Crown With ‘There’s A Party Goin’ On’udiscovermusic.com - Ian McCann Wanda Jackson tore up the rulebook. She tried to sign to Capitol Records but they didn’t want to know. Girls didn’t sing rockabilly – and anyway, …
Play buttonMusic Little Steven’s Score For Netflix’s ‘Lilyhammer’ Set For Two Volume Releaseudiscovermusic.com - Tim Peacock For the first time, Little Steven’s music from the ground-breaking first original series, Lilyhammer, which ended in 2014, has been collected together …
Play buttonMusic Paul McCartney Announces Four Landmark Live Album Reissuesudiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton After last night’s (Thursday) first date on this year’s North American leg of his Freshen Up Tour, in New Orleans, Paul McCartney has announced …
Music reDiscover Mike & The Mechanics’ ‘M6’udiscovermusic.com - Tim Peacock Genesis co-founder Mike Rutherford may have conceived Mike & The Mechanics purely as a loose, studio-based amalgam of friends and talented fellow …
Play buttonMusic How ‘Private Dancer’ Started A Very Public Affair With Tina Turnerudiscovermusic.com - Charles Waring Few would have predicted Tina Turner’s triumphant comeback in 1984, when Private Dancer put her on top of the album charts – least of all, perhaps, …
Play buttonAlbums Bastille To Stage ‘Still Avoiding Tomorrow’ Event To Mark ‘Doom Days’ Releaseudiscovermusic.com - Tim Peacock Bastille have announced details of ‘Still Avoiding Tomorrow’, a theatrical experience that will mark the release of their third album. Coinciding with …
Play buttonUniversal Music reDiscover NWA’s ‘Efil4zaggin’udiscovermusic.com - Jason Draper In the three years since the release of N.W.A’s epochal second album, Straight Outta Compton, the group had become the subject of FBI scrutiny; they’d …
Play buttonMusic ‘My Songs’: A Life Lived Through Music, In Sting’s Own Wordsudiscovermusic.com - Jason Draper Few artists have used music to chronicle the vicissitudes of life like Sting has. From revisiting his childhood on the songs that made up The Last …
Play buttonMusic ‘Babylon’s Burning’: The Story Behind The Ruts’ Incendiary Punk Classicudiscovermusic.com - Tim Peacock Proving punk was anything but dead, The Ruts’ legendary second single, ‘Babylon’s Burning’, blazed a trail up to No.7 in the UK Top 40 during the …
Play buttonMusic Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley Tribute To Feature Thurston Moore, The Damned Personneludiscovermusic.com - Tim Peacock Buzzcocks have confirmed their performance on Friday, 21 June 2019 at the Royal Albert Hall will go ahead. After the tragic death of their frontman …
Play buttonElton John Elton John Songs In The ‘Rocketman’ Film: Everything You Need To Knowudiscovermusic.com - Tim Peacock Named after his iconic 1972 hit, Rocketman is the forthcoming biopic that tells of the early career and breakthrough years of Elton John. Directed by …
Music Bringing It All Back ‘Home’ With Delaney And Bonnieudiscovermusic.com - Max Bell The husband-and-wife team of Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett are probably best known for the period immediately after their 1969 debut album, Home, when, …
Play buttonMusic Who’s Who On The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ Album Coverudiscovermusic.com - Jason Draper The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band remains the most iconic album cover of all time. From Paul McCartney’s original concept to the final …
Play buttonMusic ‘In The Lonely Hour’: How Sam Smith;s Debut Album Spoke To Millionsudiscovermusic.com - Mark Elliott If any male vocalist could possibly claim to be the current pretender to Adele’s throne, then Sam Smith is surely the prize candidate. His debut …
Music Miles Davis In His Own Wordsudiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers Standing tall among the greatest jazz trumpeters in history, Miles Davis, who died on 28 September 1991, was never afraid to speak his mind. The best …
Play buttonMusic Body And Soul: The Jazz Icons Who Died Too Youngudiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers Life on the road, with all its perils and temptations, coupled with a tendency among some young people to both “push the envelope” and believe they …
Play buttonMusic Fall Back In Love With The Cure’s ‘Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me’udiscovermusic.com - Tim Peacock With the release of their sixth studio LP, 1985’s The Head On The Door, The Cure embarked on the slow but steady commercial ascent which pulled them …
Music ‘Flying Teapot’: Tune Into Gong’s ‘Radio Gnome Invisible’ Trilogyudiscovermusic.com - Oregano Rathbone The first chapter in Gong’s so-called Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy, Flying Teapot did much to establish the wayward mystique of this most idiosyncratic …
Play button The Mystery Of The Two Sonny Boy Williamsonsudiscovermusic.com - Martin Chilton Nowadays it would be called “identity theft”, but when he took the name Sonny Boy Williamson in the early 40s – a moniker already held by a …
Play button5 Seconds of Summer Watch 5 Seconds Of Summer’s New, Dark Video For ‘Easier’udiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton 5 Seconds Of Summer are back with the new single ‘Easier’ as a preview of their upcoming fourth album, the follow-up to 2018’s Youngblood. The …
Play buttonElton John ‘Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player’: How Elton John Fired A Classicudiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton It was the embodiment of a hard-earned victory. By the turn of 1973, Elton John had been releasing albums for several years, not to mention all the …
Play buttonMusic Jon Pardi, Country Platinum-Seller, Announces New Album, Single And Tourudiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton Platinum-selling country star Jon Pardi has announced the 27 September release of a new album, tour and single, all titled Heartache Medication. The …
Music The Musical Legend Of Bonnie & Clyde, From Merle Haggard To Eminemudiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton It’s a legend that has fascinated us for more than 80 years. On 23 May 1934, the infamous American criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were …
