Released: 1979 Pink Floyd’s first single since 1968 proved to be one of the decade’s most unlikely hits, largely due…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #30 Roxy Music – Love Is the Drug
Released: 1975 The wikipedia entry for Love Is the Drug keeps it simple, explaining that (singer Bryan) ‘Ferry’s lyrics recount…
Simple Minds – Direction of the Heart review
Interviewed in Q prior to the release of Street Fighting Years in 1989, Simple Minds front man Jim Kerr was…
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Special Edition review
Hearing things is something label execs do. They like to hear hits, they like to hear radio-friendliness and they like…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #32 Television – Marquee Moon
Released: 1977 Call it fate, call it lack of imagination, call it whatever you want, but many of the records…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #31 Earth, Wind & Fire – Boogie Wonderland
Released: 1979 Six weeks after Boogie Wonderland’s release Steve Dahl held his knuckle dragger’s ball in Chicago; perhaps the outcome…
Blancmange – Private View review
Normally in music terms people are reunited with other band members, but for Blancmange – effectively Neil Arthur and friends…
Shakespears Sister – Hormonally Yours (30th anniversary edition) review
1992 was one of those years where whether you were dancing at five am in a field or getting tinnitus…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #41 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – American Girl
Released: 1976 Tom Petty once said rock n’ roll was the ultimate road trip companion “I think the music is…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #33 Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
Released : 1971 Speaking five years after What’s Going On had helped to cement him as one of the most…
The Voice Of Unreason 