1972 was a great year for albums. Transformer finally got Lou Reed on the charts, jazz nerds Steely Dan became […]
Synthesisers began to reinvent pop and rock music in the second half of the 1960s, introducing sounds well beyond guitars […]
We say goodbye to four giants of music, who’ve left us in recent weeks. Ronnie Hawkins, rock and roll pioneer, […]
Getting your song into a movie has always been good for business. If the film succeeds, the song does too. […]
In 1972, The Rolling Stones were exiles from the punitive British tax system that took 90 per cent of their […]
Little Richard was the architect of rock and roll. His seminal 1950s records Long Tall Sally, Tutti Frutti and Lucille […]
George Martin is best known as the man who gave The Beatles a recording contract and produced their records. He […]
The Saints made one of the first punk records. In Brisbane, the apparently sleepy sub-tropical Queensland capital that was actually […]
Bass is the heart of a band. It’s where rhythm and melody meet. It’s where the soul gets in. But […]
The Procol Harum song Whiter Shade of Pale took two weeks to get to the top of the UK charts […]
Music is art. But its success is measured in very commercial terms – how many records were sold. Sales figures […]
During my first years in radio, I spent most of my time hanging out in record libraries, learning from music […]
The working lives of musicians and songwriters make it hard to build successful intimate relationships and enduring marriages. What are […]
Like many kids, the sight of Elvis Presley on his parents’ black and white TV electrified a young Glenn Wheatley, […]
Gold records have been around since the early 1940s, when record companies gave them to their artists to mark memorable […]
On December 4, 1956, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley gathered round the piano at Sun […]
