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Reissue: Rush – All the World’s a Stage

For all Rush’s reputation as dazzling progressive rockers on their studio albums, they have an enviable parallell reputation as a thunderously hard rocking live act. While their 70s studio albums…

A Buyers Guide to Alice Cooper 1971 – 1975

It’s easy to forget just how consistently impressive Alice Cooper was between 1971 and 1975, both as a group and then morphing into Vincent Furnier’s solo career. From Love It…

A Buyers Guide to Supertramp 1974-1980

Even with the relatively charitable effects of nostalgia, there aren’t many bands less cool than Supertramp. They were briefly kings of FM rock, at a time that Album Orientated Rock…

A Buyers Guide to David Bowie – The Glam Years

The career arc of David Bowie was nothing if not fascinating. From his early attempts at just about anything that would get him noticed, he managed a freak hit single…

NOT FORGOTTEN – TERRORVISION – SHAVING PEACHES

Terrorvision are one of those bands where it has been all to easy for the world at large to forget them. There’s no obvious reason for this to have happened.…

NOT FORGOTTEN – QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – SONGS FOR THE DEAF

It was at one of those get togethers you attend with your other half, so there’s always a few folks you’ve not met before. My girlfriend was saying hello to…

NOT FORGOTTEN – GROUNDHOGS – SPLIT

Oddly enough, the first time I heard of The Groundhogs was a minor ‘Forgotten Heroes’ piece on them in Melody Maker back in the late 90s as apparently a number…

NOT FORGOTTEN – DREAD ZEPPELIN – UN-LED-ED

On paper it sounds like a terrible idea, a bunch of stoners playing reggae versions of Led Zeppelin tunes, fronted by an Elvis Presley impersonator. Leaping from your speakers it’s…

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