It’s a long way from the dive bars of Texas to the global stadium circuit, yet somehow ZZ Top managed to navigate their way.

The Waterboys are an act that for too long have laboured with being associated with just one song and one album, at least by the …

Despite being one of the three great pillars of 70s hard rock and heavy metal, Deep Purple have not quite received the same level of …

I can’t remember the first I became aware of Flight of the Conchords. I had certainly heard of them prior to my friend Mark recommending …

The 50 year career trajectory of Elton John has remained fascinating if not consistent. Rising to prominence during the singer-songwriter boom of the early 70s, …

I disagree with Steely Dan. But that doesn’t mean I don’t like them. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that during the …

Has any songwriter ever been more perfectly human than Kirsty MacColl? Intelligent, witty, wilful, vulnerable, contrary, mind-bogglingly talented, possessing a steely resolve and yet still …

For me there is one genuine great body of creative work from the 20th Century which is beyond criticism. It towers above the collected work …

From progressive rock pioneer, to art rocker, to world music conduit, to pop star, to multi-media explorer, Peter Gabriel has covered a tremendous amount of …

With The Beatles having called it a day, Bob Dylan walking in the opposite direction of the psychedleic counter-culture and The Rolling Stones having reached …