Month: August 2023

Who can forget the big ELO spaceship design on the album cover?, it really was a stand-out back in 1977…

‘News Of The World’ is not one of Queen’s strongest albums, but it’s not their worst either.

With Foghat having recorded arguably two of their best albums in a row, 1975’s ‘Fool For The City’ and 1976’s…

Player’ is nothing but an AOR exercise, perhaps unpolished on occasion, but a recipe for the three equally classic albums…

‘In City Dreams’ marked the end of Robin Trower’s dark progged-out blues albums into lighter fare but like the awesome…

You remember the album cover right? The browny, blueish cover with the pocket mirror held upon high reflecting the light…

The performances from all the band members shows Golden Earring in their prime, with years of live experience, there are…

i>During 1977 after a succession of gigs played through the length and breadth of the USA, Mama’s Pride release album…

This album still holds a special place in Thin Lizzy’s back catalogue, despite the troubling circumstances it was recorded in.

‘Eddie Money’ peaked at #37 on the charts, establishing Money as a artist to be reckoned with, it spawned two…

The sound of Eric Quincy Tate is more blues based than most bands of this style with elements of Honky…

Now I’m not going to pretend The Classics IV are typical Glory Daze fare but from a historical perspective they…

Orchestrated to the hilt, ‘Dompierre’ reveals the endless possibilities of symphonic rock from Francois Dompierre, steeped in Quebec culture, the…

Like The Hollies and to some extent the Bee Gees, Glyder show no pretensions to be anything other than a…

Produced by Roy Thomas Baker, on paper Jet had a lot going for them, they should’ve been on the runway…

A band that tried to be original was Les Variations, which included three Moroccan Jews, an Italian, American and two…

In my opinion, Nasty Pop had more in common with pub rockers Ace, American rust belt progressives Crack The Sky…

Rupert Hine in 1973 finally came around to the idea of forming an actual band – Quantum Jump, the group…

I really can’t recommend this album to anyone other than die hard Peter Beckett fans, Skyband were a curio at…

Strange Days presents a good album of fetching progressive pop with similarities to Strawbs, Stackridge, Irish proggers Fruupp and early…