It’s easy to forget that, in the late 1970s, there was indeed anarchy in the UK. The economic growth and […]

What madness is this? Coming immediately off the back of the review of Born to Run, surely one of the

The review of Hotel California hinted at a dichotomy between, on the one hand, the gender-bending, experimental, slightly deviant aesthetic

I like the Dude, but the Dude hates the fuckin’ Eagles, man, which is only to be expected, because they

My parents repeatedly played Too Low For Zero in our car during the 80s, so Elton John reminds me vividly

I have no connection to Neil Young: I didn’t listen to him growing up, my family didn’t, my friends didn’t,

Seems strange in retrospect but, according to music critics like Ken Barnes and Simon Reynolds, the primary architect of 70s

Obviously it’s a bit of a cliché to say that the 60s were all peace, love, LSD, economic stability and

All the hippies that I went to school with loved Led Zeppelin, which is ample reason for me to dislike

With the hippie dream collapsing in the wake of Charlie Manson, Vietnam, and the failed student uprising of 1968, the