MICK JONES OF Foreigner has revealed that he is suffering from Parkinson’s disease. “Fans will have become very aware that for some time now I have not been performing on stage with the band,” said the 79-year-old guitarist, songwriter and producer i

ANATION MOURNED following news of the passing of DJ and broadcaster Steve Wright – also recognised by the name of his long-running BBC radio show Steve Wright In The Afternoon. The 69-yearold died following an incident at his home. Police said his de

“I SEE IT as a time capsule of what it’s like to be in your twenties, during the end of the world as we know it,” says Genevieve Glynn-Reeves. The singer/lyricist laughs, but there’s a sincerity in her tone. At a time when spikily confessional voices

As Johnnie Dee cheerfully admits, Honeymoon Suite were never leading lights of the 80s scene (“There are the big bands, then there’s that grey space… we’re in the grey space”). But while their peers have fallen away, the Canadian band have played an

Manic Street Preachers were at a crossroads after tearing down the chart-hogging This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours with a partial return to their rebellious gnarly roots in 2001’s Know Your Enemy. Rather than continuing to “destroy everything we’d built

Collaborations don’t always work. When you have too many big names in a group, sometimes the result is more like standing on the toes of giants than standing on their shoulders: the combination of two or more rock legends often tends to dilute the re

The Whole Of The Moon has inspired many cover versions over the years, but Mike Scott is especially proud of the fact that Prince performed it twice. The first time was at Ronnie Scott’s in London in February 2014, in front of just 200 people. He rev

It wasn’t easy to upstage Van Halen in their prime, but calling in the US Air Force will do the trick. It was Sunday, May 29, 1983, and Scorpions were second on the bill on the so-called Heavy Metal Day at the Us Festival, the massive music jamboree

With 2024 very much under way, our inboxes have been brimming with music from rock’s newest voices, under-the-radar talents and returning favourites. This month we’ve dipped into all those areas – sifting through the great, the ‘fine’, the dreadful a

London Electric Ballroom Trad rockers dish the deliciously ballsy dirt. With influences not so much worn on their sleeves as tattooed across their faces, Dirty Honey aren’t reinventing any wheels. Happily, their wheels of choice are pretty great. The

A uniquely soulful guitarist, singer and songwriter, Peter Green was one of the architects of British blues rock. In 1966, at the age of 19, he replaced Eric Clapton in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, and recorded the classic album A Hard Road which was

Beginning his working day with a 9am Zoom call, Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson is a busy man. Here we talk about a new UK tour from Tull, the vinyl release of the band’s great long-lost album from the 70s, and the likelihood of former guitarist Mart

STOKE-ON-TRENT City Council have approved plans to erect a 2.2-metre-high bronze statue of former Hawkwind and Motörhead bassist and vocalist Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister in the Market Place of Burslem, the Staffordshire town where Lemmy was born on Decembe

KATE BUSH SAYS it was a “huge honour and a great privilege” to be invited to become the latest ambassador for Record Store Day. This year’s annual celebration of independent record stores, which began in the United States in 2007 and was initiated in

Giuliano ‘Jools’ Gizzi still remembers Gun’s first time on Top Of The Pops. It was August 1989, and their debut single Better Days had charted. Young Glaswegian upstarts in ripped denim and biker jackets, Gun were in seventh heaven – especially when

"I hope you’ll find my family’s history as interesting as my fifty-year career in music”, Phil Manzanera offers in the preface to his lockdown-written memoir, adding realistically: “Of course, it’s no problem if you want to skip to Roxy…” Probably, m

Hawkwind aren’t normally associated with teenage trauma, but here’s a story for you. It’s 1972, and a young fan (with the initials GB) is getting ready to play the Greasy Truckers Party album on his stereo – specifically the Hawks tracks Master Of Th

With a string of 25 Top 75 hits dating back to 1997’s Tangerine, Feeder have been around for three decades now. Not that you’d know it. There’s no ostentatious display of anniversary survival tonight. Feeder have never been the type of band to nostal

CONSIDERING THEY HAVE a young, excitable son, Lucky, married duo Issy Ferris and Archie Sylvester are bright-eyed for our morning chat, brimming with cheer when asked about their success at the UK Americana Awards, where they were nominated in three

If he wasn’t a musician, Kris Barras could work for the Torquay tourist board. “It’s a beautiful place to live, especially when the sun is shining,” the former MMA champion-turned-singer and guitarist says of his West Country home town. “I’ve never m

Five Day Rain were a short-lived psychedelic-tinged progressive-pop/ rock band, sadly destined for failure. But they left behind an excellent, commercially unreleased album, which featured more than several very well thought-out songs. They were form

It’s difficult to believe we’ve had the pleasure of Sheryl Crow’s company for three decades now – not least to the singer-songwriter herself. “I’ll be honest with you, I don’t know if anybody ever really feels their age,” she considers. “I mean, I’m

Ohio Players NONESUCH Two decades after Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney stripped the blues-band format back to the bone, the Ohio duo’s twelfth album is their most sociable yet, with a guest list that includes Beck, Noel Gallagher, a brace of Memphi