Sometime in 1980, a University of Southern California film student named Ken Kwapis walked into a Los Angeles record store. As he was flipping through the bins, an album caught his eye. Three ...

Marking 50 years since its release, Status Quo’s Blue For You remains a landmark album in British rock, featuring hits like Rain and Mystery Song ...

Despite the fact that they had been tipped for greatness early on, Dexys Midnight Runners had to go to extreme lengths to get ...

Championed by the BBC’s John Peel and signed to Rough Trade, the band were punk when that meant DIY, psychedelia and prog as well as screaming chords. What’s more, they loved Pink Floyd ...

The first incarnation of the band had formed in Birmingham in 1969 with a different singer, Al Atkins. Named after the Bob Dylan song The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, they played ...

Photographer Spike Waltzer captured the early-1980s Los Angeles punk scene. Now, there's an exhibition of his unseen icons showing in Camden.

These three female country artists had big hits in the 80s, but have since faded away without making more music.

Van Halen fans must be miffed right now, if they’ve seen an opinionated list recently published by Ultimate Classic Rock.

And how they triumphed amid the ‘mudbath’ of the first Monsters Of Rock festival ...

As one critic said, this band had “more good riffs in one song than there are in the first four Black Sabbath albums” ...

Until the 1980s, an annual prison rodeo offered a chance for men inside to perform and sell albums. Now we’re making them available to you.

A Cheshire oil refinery on the Wirral peninsula proved furtive influence for one of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's most ...