“Drugs have done good things for us. If you don’t believe they have do me a favour. Take all your albums, CDs, tapes and burn them. Because you know what? The musicians who made that great music that has enhanced …
Known for his hard living lifestyle and outspoken opinions, Sam Kinison was one of the most notorious stand-up comics of the late 1980s. Be soon became a symbol of pop culture, starring in movies, music videos and television shows, whilst …
Following the phenomenal success of their self-titled debut album and the singles Youth Gone Wild and 18 and Life, Skid Row became a huge hit with metal fans in the late 1980s. Despite hair metal coming to an abrupt end …
Like many of the groups to emerge shortly before the grunge outbreak of 1991, Love/Hate‘s success was short-lived and, aside from a select few who remember their brief stardom in the wake of their debut album Blackout in the Redroom …
Thunder were one of two British acts to open the Monsters of Rock festival in 1990 and the first to take the stage. To be included on the same bill as the likes of Aerosmith and Whitesnake was a major …
For over thirty-five years, BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel was one of the most respected broadcasters in the world, having pioneered such influential genres as punk and hip hop into the British mainstream. His Peel Sessions, in which both …
Many of the American glam metal bands to emerge during the mid-1980s would become influenced by blues later in their career. Yet whilst Faster Pussycat and Poison were largely unsuccessful with this, Cinderella enjoyed acclaim for their albums Long Cold …
For the last twenty years, Mike Patton has been one of the most active, unique and respected artists in the music industry, having gained acclaim for his work through a variety of projects, including Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, …
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