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America

Bicentennial 1976- 10 big gigs from America's previous milestone birthday party

Bicentennial 1976: 10 big gigs from America’s previous milestone birthday party

Giant venues, giant stars, less embarrassment.

Andrew Clayman
Jul 2, 2026
Lou Reed - Musician - 2000s

How Lou Reed condensed a nation’s grief into one 2003 song: “Everything I experienced is in that”

There are no words.

Reuben Cross
Jul 2, 2026
What was ‘the day the music died’? Buddy Holly

“The worst song I’ve ever heard”: Buddy Holly, John Wayne, and an uncanny 1957 classic

Rock ‘n’ roll’s most fateful song?

Tom Taylor
Jun 30, 2026
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s selection of the ‘660 songs that shaped rock

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s selection of the ‘660 songs that shaped rock’

The whole damn history of rock.

Tom Taylor
Jun 28, 2026
The Beatles and the Civil Rights Movement- How the Fab Four fought racial segregation in 1964’

Five real American locations in The Beatles’ songbook

“Now she’s hit the big time…”

Tom Phelan
Jun 28, 2026
The Essex - 1963

The US Marines had their own hit band until a tragic armed robbery in 1966

Marching to the beat.

Tom Phelan
Jun 25, 2026
‘Mother and Child Reunion’ - Paul Simon - 1972

“Strange times”: The Paul Simon anthem that captured the 1960s better than any other song of the era

“There’s not one line that rhyme.”

Tom Taylor
Jun 25, 2026
'The Future'- Why Leonard Cohen’s peak bleakness suited the early 1990s

‘The Future’: Why Leonard Cohen’s peak bleakness suited the early 1990s

“We were tossed out of the garden; this isn’t paradise”.

Andrew Clayman
Jun 25, 2026
Matt Groening - Cartoonist - Animator - 2025

Matt Groening’s favourite line from any comedy movie ever

A classic dysfunction.

Tom Taylor
Jun 23, 2026
Bob Seger - Musician - 1977

The 1973 movie that inspired Bob Seger’s masterpiece: “That was my high-school years”

“It too me six months to finish it…”

Ben Forrest
Jun 22, 2026
Heavy metal band GWAR investigated by Secret Service after mock Trump execution

GWAR investigated by Secret Service after mock Donald Trump execution

GWAR are not happy with the predicament.

Lauren Hunter
Jun 22, 2026
The two classic song Don McLean considered the antithesis of American Pie

‘American Pie’: a 1971 song of three deaths and three million more

“Holly’s plane crash in 1959 foreshadowed a series of deaths”.

Tom Taylor
Jun 22, 2026

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