November 1974 …the state wages war on fela kuti

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A war surgeon’s struggles David Nott has spent ...

WE WERE THE first band of our generation that started to grow up,” Billy Corgan says, reflecting on the making of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 grand opus, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. “The b

John Lennon called them “sons of The Beatles”. Axl Rose said there was nothing like them. But how did a trio of Brummies create the progressive orchestral pop rock band who eventually became a global phenomenon following 1975’s breakthrough album Face The Music ?

Fondly remembered this month...

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