It is a funny old world when you consider how music travels. Sometimes, a melody or a rhythm escapes its cage, travels across the...

It was the summer of 1979, and if you were flicking through your wireless or watching the telly, you could hardly escape the shimmering,...

It was September 1981, and the air in New York’s Central Park was thick with the scent of damp grass and anticipation. Half a...

Cast your mind back to 1980. The world was gripped by a peculiar, neon-soaked obsession with roller-skating, and nowhere was this craze more vivid...

Picture the scene: London, 1975. The air is thick with anticipation and the smell of cigarette smoke in the recording studio. Queen, a band...

It was 1964, and the air inside the Hitsville U.S.A. studio was thick with nervous energy. The Four Tops were recording what would become...

Picture the scene: it is 1970, and the British Isles are in the grip of rock and roll fever. Across the country, teenagers are...

Picture the scene: it is 1972, and the nation is gathered around the wireless or staring at the flickering glow of the telly, waiting...

It was the summer of 1989, and the humid, pulsating atmosphere of the London club scene was about to be irrevocably altered. If you...

It is difficult to imagine a world where the soaring, melancholic crescendo of Total Eclipse of the Heart does not fill the airwaves. Yet,...

Picture the scene in 1977. You are a promising singer, you have just started to make a name for yourself, and suddenly, your instrument...

There are moments in the history of British music that feel almost scripted, like a scene plucked straight from a gritty kitchen-sink drama. We...

There is a particular kind of magic that occurs when a musician transcends their own physical limitations to create something timeless. For those of...

It is 1977, and West Berlin is a grey, bruised city, sliced in two by the shadow of the Wall. For David Bowie, the...

It was 1964, and the airwaves across Britain were changing. The Merseybeat phenomenon had taken hold, and for a performer like Petula Clark, who...

It is difficult to imagine a more quintessential piece of eighties British lore than the friction that sparked within the recording studio walls during...

It is difficult to believe that it has been over thirty years since Robert Smith and The Cure retreated to a secluded country house...

It was 1972, and while the rest of the world was looking at the stars with wide-eyed wonder, one young man from Pinner was...

Picture the scene: December 1971, the snow-dusted town of Montreux in Switzerland. The air was crisp, and the local gambling house was buzzing with...

Picture the scene: it is 1971, the telly is humming with the latest news, and a young, gravel-voiced lad named Rod Stewart is struggling...