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Mechanical Animals

RETROSPECTIVE – A Year in Music: 1998

While there were no specific trends that dominated the musical landscape of 1998, the year saw the release of a host of impressive and successful

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Scream Until You Like It

RETROSPECTIVE – When Horror Goes Metal

For almost three decades movie producers have recruited the services of pop stars and heavy metal artists to help market their products to new audiences.

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1995 in Music

RETROSPECTIVE – A Year in Music: 1995

With Nirvana's Kurt Cobain having committed suicide the previous year, 1995 saw a significant decline in popularity for Seattle's grunge movement, replaced instead by a revival of American punk that ...
The Cathouse Axl Rose

RETROSPECTIVE – The Cathouse

While CBGB dominated the New York punk scene during the 1980s, Hollywood’s hair metal bands had a pick of venues to showcase their act, from the Troubadour and the Rainbow ...
Mick Mars Mötley Crüe

RETROSPECTIVE – Mick Mars: Living With Ankylosing Spondylitis

As they often insist on reminding us, it is a hard life being a rock star. The demands of the music business, coupled with constant touring, difficulties in forming lasting ...
The Marquee

RETROSPECTIVE – The Marquee

For half a century The Marquee remained the centre of London's thriving music scene. Providing an early platform for such legendary artists as the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and The ...
Bubba Smith and Vince Neil

RETROSPECTIVE – Vince Neil’s Cut Scene From Police Academy 6

By the end of 1988 Mötley Crüe had spent the better part of a decade indulging in the debauchery of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and, as the tour for ...
CBGB

RETROSPECTIVE – CBGB

To many, the birth of punk took place at 315 Bowery in Manhattan, New York, during the mid-1970s. The location was a rundown and sleazy venue called CBGB, a sweat-soaked ...
Brian Cox

RETROSPECTIVE – Prof Brian Cox, Former Rock Star

"Physics is better than rock 'n' roll," declared the headline of an article published by The Guardian earlier this year that profiled keyboardist-turned-physicist Professor Brian Cox. But if anyone would ...
Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar

RETROSPECTIVE – A Year in Music: 1996

1996 saw grunge breathing its final breath, Britpop at the height of its popularity and industrial metal dominating the alternative music scene. Few remnants of the 1980s still existed; instead, ...

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