Johnny Cash’s recording of God’s Gonna Cut You Down, recorded just before his death in 2003, became all the more poignant when this posthumous video was released three years later.

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Chet Atkins never became a household name outside his genre of country music – but was recognised as a legend within it.

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This song immediately evokes a poignant childhood memory for me, from a family holiday in Cornwall in the summer of ’69.

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Sometimes I choose a song not because I particularly love it but because it’s the right one at the right time. Like this.

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This long-forgotten garage band was the first group my friend Craig Poland Smith ever got to see, at East Aurora High School in upstate New York in 1965.

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Frankie Goes To Hollywood had already upset the Mary Whitehouse brigade with their naughty chart topper Relax when they followed it with this song.

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Sad to hear of another rock’n’roll death, this time of George Kooymans, lead guitarist and co-founder of Dutch rockers Golden Earring.

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Heavy metal was never my music and Black Sabbath were never my band. But Ozzy superseded the genre he and his mates invented.

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It’s easy to sneer at Oasis: for their success, their ubiquity, their idiocy, their Beatles obsession, and a great deal of their music.

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Back to my childhood again for Pickettywitch singing That Same Old Feeling – one of two different versions in the charts.

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