Why stop now?

lthough Marc Almond and Dave Ball grew up in Southport and Blackpool respectively before meeting at Leeds Polytechnic in 1977, Soft Cell are arguably a London band: both men moved to the capital as so

THE NEW YEAR is just a few weeks old and John Fogerty is driving with his wife and manager, Julie, along a stretch of California highway. But as the road unwinds ahead of him, his thoughts are driftin

Way back in 1970, during a long night ...

Inspired by Japanese manga and Italian cinema, the Irish quintet’s fourth searches for truth in a world gone wrong. Keith Cameron is smitten. Illustration by The Red Dress.

JOE BONAMASS A ERIC JOHNSON PHILIP SAYCE JENNIFER BATT EN KIRK FLETCHER STEVE MORSE STEVE LUKATHE R MARTY FRIEDMAN BILL NELSON ANDY TIMMONS STEVE HACKETT DUANE BETTS NITA STRAUSS SAMANTH A FISH STEVE CROPPER DAMON JOHNSO N JESSE DAYTON SOPHIELLOYD VINNIE MOORE YVETTE YOUNG PAUL GILBERT SERENA CHERR Y ZAKK WYLDE ORIANTHIXXX ROCKY ATHAS DEVON ALLM AN TRACII GUNS JAY JAY FRENCH DAVID GILMOUR & MANY MORE

Recorded with “just what I had lying around”, Born In the U.S.A. remains Bruce Springsteen’s best-known and most commercially successful album. Forty years on, we look at the making of the record that elevated him from star to global superstar.