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Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles ushered in a whole new way to consume music when it became the first song played on MTV in 1981, and its chief creator would soon initiate new technicolour w

Rather gear collection of punky outsider artists’ BBC work recorded between 1978 and 1980.

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 ?

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

The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

BY THE BOOK I’m writing to say how ...