



1986 was make or break time for Bon Jovi. After their self-titled, debut album in 1984 had put them firmly into the trench, everyone took it...




On 31st January 1987, Paul Simon went back to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Graceland’, the singer-songwriters seventh solo album. The album brought Simon...




Back in the 1980’s, U2 under-took a gruelling nine-month tour following the release of The Unforgettable Fire, which took in 54 US dates and led to...




In June 1985, just four days after new guitarist and former Hollywood Rose member Slash had been recruited, Guns N’ Roses left their Los Angeles base...




Def Leppard were under no illusions about what they wanted to do: they wanted to become the biggest band in the world, and were prepared to...




After a nine-month break in 1989, Metallica played nine shows in Europe to knock off the rust. The last of those was in Glasgow. Backstage afterwards,...




1990, and Seattle’s music scene is booming, the culmination of almost a decade’s worth of bands working as a community, putting out their own records, and...




In 2002, not long after the 10th anniversary of the release of Nevermind, Dave Grohl was asked whether he felt that Nevermind had had an impact...




BloodSugarSexMagik was released on the same day that Nirvana released Nevermind and is recognised as an influential and seminal component of the alternative rock explosion in...




Born with a voice to die for, his audacious debut Grace made him one of the most popular alternative artists of the ’90s, accentuated by his...




Towards the end of the 80’s, Manchester gave us ‘Madchester’, a mix of alternative rock, psychedelic rock and dance music. This scene, exclusive to the North...




On 13th June 1995, Alanis Morissette released Jagged Little Pill. The album went on to sell over 30 million copies world-wide and made Morissette the first...




David Bowie’s landmark 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars was recorded in November 1971, close on the heels...




The release of their second studio album, The Bends, in 1995 saw Radiohead cracking the top 5 in the UK chart, playing to sold out crowds...


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