“All I’ve got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth,” Bono announced on Rattle & Hum, borrowing a phrase from country music’s Harlan Howard. Judging from his latest…
Rupert Holmes – Songs That Sound Like Movies review
Rupert Holmes is a British- American tunesmith largely remembered – or despised – for his somewhat anomalous 1979 hit single, Escape (The Piña Colada Song), probably because listeners assumed he…
Flesh For Lulu – Flesh For Lulu review
Flesh For Lulu were a bunch of South Londoners who, in the 80s and early-90s, specialised in new wave pop-rock with a hint of glam, all dressed up in the…
Nick J.D. Hodgson – Tell Your Friends review
“I don’t care about you,” former Kaiser Chief Nick Hodgson confesses early on this solo album, “But I’m trying to get you to smile.” How noble that is, though in…
Stealers Wheel – The A&M Years review
If you ever watched that scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs – in which Michael Madsen’s Mr Blonde character tortures a cop as he makes neat terpsichorean moves to the…
Roxy Music – Roxy Music review
Along with Marc Bolan and David Bowie, Roxy Music formed part of the holy early- 70s trinity of acts in terms of impact on the musicians that appear in the…
Sweet – Sensational Sweet review
The early-70s weren’t all Bowie, Roxy and Bolan. In fact, there’s a tendency to see the aforementioned trio as “good glam” or “high glam”, while their contemporaries, such as The…
Tony Banks – 5 review
Genesis founder and keyboardist Tony Banks said he didn’t appear on his last LP, 2012’s Six Pieces for Orchestra, because: “It had always been an ambition of mine to have…
Bonnie Tyler – Remixes and Rarities review
Bonnie Tyler’s music is already OTT – power balladry at its most epic and bombastic – so what better than a CD full of extensions and extrapolations? Remixes And Rarities…
Andrew Ridgeley – Son of Albert review
This is the first reissue for Ridgeley’s debut, originally released in 1990, in the wake of his former Wham!-mate’s ascension to global megastardom with Faith. It evinced a hard rock…