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Author: Ben Forrest Archives: 04/2026

Joe Cocker - Singer - 1960s

Sheffield’s finest: When Joe Cocker became a babysitter for Jarvis Cocker in 1964

A strange coincidence…

Ben Forrest
Apr 28, 2026
Booker T. & the M.G.'s - 1960

‘Hip Hug-Her’: How Booker T and the MGs changed R&B forever in 1967

A landmark recording…

Ben Forrest
Apr 28, 2026
Disco - Disco Ball - Mirrorball - 1970s - Soul - Funk - General Use

Gay clubs, Philly Soul, and the 1975 song that launched music’s disco future

An essential track…

Ben Forrest
Apr 28, 2026
Bob Dylan - Bruce Springsteen - Split

“Part of history”: The moment in 1975 when Bruce Springsteen stopped being ‘the next Bob Dylan’

An essential step…

Ben Forrest
Apr 28, 2026
Don Henley - The Eagles - 2019 - Musician

The 1971 classic Don Henley called Led Zeppelin’s own ‘Hotel California’

Two of the biggest tracks of the 1970s.

Ben Forrest
Apr 27, 2026
Grateful Dead - 1970

How Jeremy Beadle made Wigan the centre of the UK’s acid rock boom in 1972

A momentous, muddy occasion…

Ben Forrest
Apr 27, 2026
Lee Ranaldo - Musician - Sonic Youth

The band that defined the 1990s, according to Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo

A revolutionary band…

Ben Forrest
Apr 27, 2026
Nick Drake - 1969 - Keith Morris

How the Nick Drake bootleg craze was started by his dad back in 1957

“He would give the tapes away…”

Ben Forrest
Apr 26, 2026
The Supremes - 1970's

Life after Diana Ross: The underrated Motown mastery of The Supremes later years

Post-Diana Ross…

Ben Forrest
Apr 26, 2026
The Mekons- the raucous world of Leeds’ first punk band

‘Never Been in a Riot’: How a 1978 Clash parody launched a lasting post-punk institution

Still going strong to this day…

Ben Forrest
Apr 26, 2026
‘Everybody's Gotta Live’- How Arthur Lee’s masterpiece helped him escape Love

The 1967 masterpiece Arthur Lee wrote “for future generations”

“Arthur was moving it, all right..”

Ben Forrest
Apr 26, 2026
The Beatles - Hamburg - Far Out Magazine

Allan Williams: the man who drove The Beatles to Hamburg in 1960

An essential figure in Beatles history…

Ben Forrest
Apr 26, 2026

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