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Listen To Jack Bruce & Leslie West’s ‘Spoonful’
Here's an early chance to listen to the live version of 'Spoonful,' featuring the late Jack Bruce, that features on Soundcheck, the new album by Leslie West, his friend and former bandmate from West,...
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Queen At The Odeon: A Night In Pictures
The legendary A Night At The Opera tour has gone down in history for capturing Queen at their most bombastic up to that point. Touring their UK chart-topping album for 26 dates in their homeland, they...
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McCartney, May, Blur, Coldplay & More In Star Boot Sale
An impressive array of musicians, actors and artists have donated unique personal memorabilia for Star Boot Sale, an eBay auction to benefit refugees of the conflict in Syria. Items include as a...
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Queen’s Flash Saves Every One Of Us
The UK chart countdown for the week of 6 December, 1980 echoed to new entries by Adam & the Ants with 'Antmusic,' Jona Lewie's seasonal hit with 'Stop The Cavalry' and rockabilly revivalists the...
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Iggy, Damned, Buzzcocks, Ant For Isle Of Wight
Iggy Pop, Adam Ant, the Damned and Buzzcocks are among the new names just added to the 2016 Isle of Wight Festival. They will help to mark the 40th anniversary of punk at the first major UK festival of...
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Queen’s Winter Solstice
It was Freddie Mercury himself who sang that the show must go on. Sure enough, fully four years after his death and on this date exactly 20 years ago, Queen were scoring yet another new top ten hit in...
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uDTV Episode 4 – Featuring Joe Bonamassa, The Cadillac Three, Roy Orbison and...
Welcome to uDTV episode 4! In this episode Kylie Olsson interviews Jaren, Kelby & Neil from The Cadillac Three & the band plays a superb live set in Abbey Road's Studio 3. Kylie also interview...
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Sound Advice: Get Into SHM Audio
Since the CD boom of the 80s, manufacturers have sought to improve the sound quality offered by the little plastic disc with aluminium coating. Gold-plated CDs went some way towards this, with 24-carat...
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Picture This: The Best Illustrated Music Books
Even if it is a cliché, the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words is hard to discredit. Regardless of any book’s literary content, it’s been scientifically proven that the human brain...
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Free At Last: 7LP Box Set
One of the most prolific blues-rock acts to emerge from Britain in the late 60s, Free released six albums in the space of four years. Boasting the powerhouse vocals of frontman Paul Rodgers, the...
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Queen Wanted It All, And Got It
When Queen entered the UK singles chart on 13 May, 1989 with 'I Want It All,' they'd been absent from the countdown for more than two and a half years. But that debut fired the starting pistol for a...
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LOUD FOR LIFE: THE HEADBANGING STORY OF HEAVY METAL
Of all the genres of music, “Heavy Metal” is considered the black sheep of the family. The genre that quietly burns steady, strong and eternally bright, away from the glare of mainstream media. With...
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Promised You A Miracle
The 80s was the era when the world woke up again to British pop. Since the Beatlemania boom of the mid-60s, the overseas market for UK acts had gradually declined, but, 20 years later, Britain was back...
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Genesis in 20 Classic Gigs
There is something very evocative about old gig ads and posters, from a time before bands became headliners. Genesis, just like every band, started out supporting other bands during their early days…...
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Queen’s Extended Play
Students of Queen's incredible and elongated record of service on the UK singles chart might notice what appears, in some chart books at least, to be a strange omission in their list of hits. During...
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Singled Out: The God-Like Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury made his name as the frontman of rock gods Queen, but before they embarked on their journey to the top of rock’s Mount Olympus, he released an obscure (and now much-sought) solo single,...
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Freddie Mercury Scholarship Announced
The award of a Freddie Mercury Scholarship to mark what would have been the late Queen singer's 70th birthday on 5 September has been announced by the Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) and Metropolis...
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Queen Still Reign In UK’s ’60 At 60′ Chart
Queen's Greatest Hits collection of 1981 continues to be the UK's bestselling album of all time, as chart compilers the Official Charts Company today unveil a new top 60 bestsellers list to mark the...
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The Devil Is In The Detail
Like all good innovations from the psychedelic era, backwards-messaging (or “backmasking”) was discovered at that creative intersection between technological progression and what might be politely...
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A New Label For Marshall Amps
World-famous amplifier company Marshall, whose name is synonymous with live rock, is to launch its own Marshall Records. UK trade magazine Music Week reports today (Monday) that Marshall Amplification...
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