AUSTIN POWELL

Subtitled “The Chewy Chewy Sounds Of American Bubblegum 1966-1971”

About two years ago I wrote a review of a previous 2xCD package of Frank Sinatra LPs and concluded by writing, “Ol’ Blue Eyes never...

While seventies fashion may well be something we’d prefer to forget, music from decade is a different matter altogether. Although derided by some as a...

Think for a moment what’s gone missing from our High Streets in recent years.

Kiki Dee isn’t the only British artist to be signed to Detroit’s Motown Records Company, but I’ll bet you hers is the only name you’d...

Johnny Mathis once said “Nat King Cole was the God of popular music in our house”...

It’s often said that music changed when The Beatles issued their Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, but they’d changed the scene long before...

Before The Beatles made their first record for Parlophone Records they’d already made several recordings for the German Polydor label and the man who had...

You’ve heard the phrase many times, “Rock ‘n’ Roll will never die”...

Between 1961 and 1965 Del Shannon had eight Top 10 hits and six more than made the Top 40 here in Britain.