This month in pop september 1984

13 Four years before his first hit, the rapper MC Hammer releases his non-charting debut album, Feel My Power. 23 Boris Gardiner starts a three-week run at No.1 on the UK Singles Chart with I Wanna Wa

RIDE ON TIME BLACK BOX (DECONSTRUCTION) Was anyone, in the final months of 1989, really fooled by the full-throated vocals coming out of the mouth of Katrin Quinol when Black Box performed this huge h

01 Fleetwood Mac close their Tusk world tour with a performance at the Hollywood Bowl. Guitarist Lindsay Buckingham tells the crowd: “This is our last show for a long time.” 05 On his Hotter Than July

At 16 I was most interested in music and boys. I went to the BRIT School. So around 16, it was kind of that transition into, do I want to go to college for music? Or should I think about just leaving

Forty years ago this September, Kate Bush released Hounds Of Love . Her fifth studio record reinstated her position as one of the most innovative and creative artists of all time and yielded the (future) chart-topper Running Up That Hill . But its creation wasn’t always smooth. Here’s the story behind one of Bush’s best-loved albums.

Ending a musical career on a high note isn’t a common phenomenon, with many acts releasing a number of lacklustre singles in the last knockings, but there are plenty of exceptions in our latest countd