John Entwistle became the first member of The Who to tour outside of the band when he took his own group, Ox, on the road in the UK towards ...

The Dulwich College Colts Rugby XV of 1967 included half of Quiet Sun, one member each of Roxy Music and Matching Mole, 40% of the group 801...

The New York Dolls in 1973, picture by Bob Gruen. David Jo is on the right. The legend of The New York Dolls, erstwhile nominees for the Roc...

I t was 50 years this week that I wrote my first big story for Melody Maker about John Lennon’s fight to remain the US. It was an ongoing s...

Peter Stanfield wrote an unusual, rather scholarly, book about The Who that I reviewed on Just Backdated in 2021. Entitled A Band With Built...

Time was when the America’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame sent out cassettes containing one song by the nominees for that particular year. Th...

The promotional material for this film covering the first 14 months of Led Zeppelin’s stellar career suggests that their success was achieve...

The obituaries will have been written long ago and filed away with others for whom a long life seemed unlikely. Marianne herself probably di...

Who is Bob Dylan? Having spent a lifetime dodging the question, he’s apparently given the nod to this terrific early-years biopic which migh...

David Leaf has risen to a Beach Boys’ role similar to that of Mark Lewisohn with The Beatles and the late Johnny Rogan with The Byrds. He is...