There’s no love for Manchester in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The city’s greatest bands have rarely had a sniff at enshrinement in Cleveland.
Author: Andrew Clayman Archives: 11/2025
‘This Guy’s in Love With You’: Herb Alpert’s “one-take” chart-topper
When he put down the trumpet and belted one out.
Did Sir Mix-a-Lot invent the country-rap genre six years before ‘Baby Got Back’?
He also laid an early claim to “the Seattle Sound”.
Big Star: Examining why ‘#1 Record’ never hit the power pop heights it should have
Children by the million were not singing for Alex Chilton.
The musician Eddie Van Halen called an “original” who “breathed” rock ‘n’ roll
He only met him once.
The song Mark Knopfler called a “two minute take on a two ton book”
Inspired by a Thomas Pynchon novel.
Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra: The collaboration that never was
Frank called Billie his “greatest single influence”.
‘Last Night A DJ Saved My Life’: the strange influence of a dance classic on ‘OK Computer’
“You gotta get up, you gotta get on.”
Miles Davis’ view on drugs and how the jazz world was policed: “It enhances creativity”
Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday deserved a better fate…
‘Chosen Priest and the Apostle of Infinite Space’: The riddle of the two-month long song
How much time you got?
“Saturday nights in Leeds”: Why Kaiser Chiefs’ ‘I Predict a Riot’ didn’t quite connect with Americans
Expected to follow Franz Ferdinand to cross-Atlantic success…