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Fondly remembered this month...

IT WAS THE summer of 1985, and Johnny Marr was a man out of time. Three years earlier, while still a teenager, the guitarist had co-founded the Smiths in Manchester, England, with vocalist Morrissey (

ON THE SURFACE, guitar trends in 1986 looked downright wild and perverse — a weird parade of shred-happy virtuosos, anthemic power pop heroes, dirtbag metalheads and eccentric alt-rock outsiders. But

In “a junkyard of surrealistic mayhem”: Adele Bertei ...

PARADE BEGAN WITH a bruised ego. Two years earlier, in 1984, the 25-million-selling Purple Rain had set a sky-high bar. Now, the critical consensus was that Prince had fumbled the follow-up with Aroun

Robbie Williams enjoys shaking things up — and he did it again when he surprised his legions of fans by dropping his latest album, BRITPOP, on 16 January. Now, the former Take That star has achieved h