The history of this classic romantic ballad is a long and complicated one, involving two English folk singers, an American schoolteacher, a screen legend – and a dead cat. (more…)

I love the filthy fuzzed-up guitar squall that starts this song. Sleazy and crunchy; grunge before grunge. (more…)

The Emeralds (as they were first called) were a group of four brothers from Little Rock, Arkansas: the splendidly named Ivory, Cleophus, Raymond and Abrim, who wrote, arranged and produced their handful of hits. (more…)

The Faces and Rod Stewart were on borrowed time together when they reached their peak with Cindy Incidentally when it reached No.2 in February 1973. (more…)

This raucous, rousing rocker was Slade’s fourth number one, and another absolute belter. (more…)

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If ever there was a group that did exactly what it said on the tin it was Status Quo, who seem to have been playing the same song for half a century.

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