At first glance Harry Nilsson looks like a one hit wonder, no better – or worse – than Norman Geenbaum, The Archies or Clive Dunn. He had ju...

On their long-awaited new album Raise The Roof,  Robert Plant and Alison Krauss cover ‘Go Your Way’, written by Anne Briggs around 1962. In ...

Gram Parsons in his Nudie suit, with Mr Nudie the tailor.  When I was posted to Los Angeles at the end of August in 1973 to become Melody Ma...

Long waits invariably heighten expectations, whether it’s the traditional late arrival on stage by The Rolling Stones or the delay between a...

It’s a tug-of-war as mighty as Led Zeppelin itself. On one side we have Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones all steadfastly maintai...

With his uncombed hair, rotten teeth and charity shop clothes, not to mention the obligatory bottle, Shane MacGowan presented himself to the...

Initiative is a key weapon in the armoury of the aspiring rock writer who wants to go places, especially if they’re starting from zero and o...

Look Away , the much-touted Sky documentary about the exploitation of girls/women in the music industry, offered chilling testimony to conde...

The miracle is that they don’t sound any different. Frida will be 76 in November and Agnetha turned 71 in April but their voices, especially...

On the surface, Charlie Watts and Ted Dexter, who died last week within 24 hours of each other, might seem to have little in common. The for...