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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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