Sir Cliff Richard is one of the most successful rock singers of all time. He has had Number One singles in the UK in the last five consecutive decades. He has had 130 albums and EPs make the UK Top 20, more than any other artist. He’s also sold more than 250 million records.
The [...]
It’s interesting, I routinely interview some of the most legendary rock performers of the last several decades, and yet for some reason very few of them are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In the last six months alone I have interviewed members of Yes, Heart, Boston, Styx, The Runaways (Lita [...]
For the most part I am not a particular fan of the journalistic approach in which the writer is actually a character in the story, at least not for non-fiction. I prefer my rock bios as straightforward as newspaper articles, but that’s not generally how it works. It is a genre that lends itself [...]
As the title implies, BK3 is guitarist Bruce Kulick’s third solo album, and it’s a dramatic step forward for the former KISS/current Grand Funk Railroad member.
Not that there’s anything wrong with either Audio Dog or Transformer, Bruce’s previous solo efforts. Both are very solid representations of his capabilities, but in some ways each [...]
I never met Kyle Woodring. I first became aware of him a few years ago when I was working on a book entitled The Grand Delusion: The Unauthorized True Story of Styx. I was trying to get as many interviews with people close to the members of Styx as I could, and Kyle was [...]
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It’s always easy to second-guess award show winners and losers, especially in hindsight, but the Grammy Awards has earned itself a particular reputation over the past 52 years for occasionally picking the wrong horse — or at least picking it for the wrong race. So to help avoid getting your hopes raised too high [...]
I’m sure many of you by now have seen the recent poll from Spike.com in which Peter Frampton’s seminal live album Frampton Comes Alive! was named #1 in a poll called “The Top 10 Classic Albums That Accidentally Ruined Music”.
“Frampton Comes Alive! literally changed music overnight and turned the record industry into very [...]
Rick Wakeman is, obviously, one of the most influential rock keyboardists of his generation. First with the Strawbs, then with Yes, then as a solo artist he helped to pioneer a fusion of rock and classical styles that came to be known as progressive rock. His work has been beloved by audiences and fellow [...]
Every year around this time, rock music fans the world over collectively cringe when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its newest crop of inductees. Eyes roll, and complaints and arguments erupt online from every direction as fans passionately plead the cases of their favorite bands that have been passed over again this [...]
For those of you who have been living on another planet for the past few months, Kiss is celebrating its 35th anniversary by releasing a new album entitled Sonic Boom in October, and the band has been hyping the new disc as the best Kiss has recorded since the heyday of its classic lineup with albums [...]
