With Status Quo now history and Francis Rossi enjoying his An Audience With tours, a new album was far from his mind. But one thing led to another, and…

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ROD DAVIS owns one of the most important records in history: John Lennon’s copy of “Rock Island Line” by Lonnie Donegan. “I bought it from John for half a crown,” Rod says. “Since then, it’s been sign

WHEN LENNY KRAVITZ released Circus, his fourth album, in 1995, he was coming off the back of the career-defining, global success of 1993’s Are You Gonna Go My Way. That album — and the single of the s

A key figure in 70s pub rock is back with more songs “about politics or idiots with fingers on buttons”.

They were straight-out-of-Dunfermline punks. Then Stuart Adamson’s heroic guitars and Richard Jobson’s rabble-rouser intellectualism took them somewhere more complex and anthemic. Heroic, fiery hits including Into The Valley and Masquerade followed, but as well as creative struggles and line-up shifts, darkness and tragedy were waiting. “There was much more to the Skids than simply punk,” say the band and their collaborators, who recall “an ongoing tension… that ended up breaking the band.”