The Doors’ gestation goes all the way back to a chance meeting between two students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) film school. Jim...
In 1966, Jimi Hendrix was playing in small clubs in New York’s Greenwich Village, calling himself Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. The Animals were big...
The greatest album ever? The best Beatles album? Well that’s all subjective, and we’re all entitled to our own opinion, but in mine, it is neither....
When the dust had settled, it became clear that Cream’s debut album, Fresh Cream, released in December 1966, had been a solid Top 10 UK success...
Ogdens’… was the album The Small Faces had been wanting to make ever since the 1960s had turned psychedelic a couple of years earlier. Drummer Kenny...
Not a lot was happening in music today in 1968. No one was making headline news. During a live interview, Jane Asher announced she was breaking...
The Beatles‘ ninth album in seven years is arguably one of their best. The working title was A Doll’s House, changed after UK progressive rock band...
Beggars Banquet, the seventh studio album by The Stones, marked a return to the band’s R&B roots. Following the long sessions for the previous album Their...
1. Paul McCartney was the only Beatle wearing a beard during the recording and filming of the ‘Let It Be’ album and movie. Ironically, he was...
Led Zeppelin I, the band’s debut album, was released in the US, on 12 January 1969, coinciding with the band’s first headlining US concert tour. It...
On 26th Sept 1969, The Beatles released Abbey Road in the UK. The final studio recordings from the group featured two George Harrison songs ‘Something’ (Harrison’s...
In the late 1960s, bands were expected to release more than one album a year, and they were usually happy to do so since their income...
Released in December 1969 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States, shortly after the band’s 1969 American Tour, Let...
In Feb 1970, Simon and Garfunkel went to No.1 on the UK chart with “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. The album went on to stay on the...
Island Records, which was founded in Jamaica in 1959 by Chris Blackwell and Graeme Goodall, who relocated to the UK in May 1962, having released 26...
