Those amazing records!

Continuing the journey in the world of British punk and alternative music, after talking about The Clash and Morrissey, it seemed right to take...

Names such as the Smiths and Morrissey, may say little or nothing to today's listeners, but they are very meaningful to the 80s’ rock...

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me was released in may 1987: Robert Smith’s lips, portrayed on the cover, are the symbol of a record...

Listening to Back to black makes me enthusiastic. It is like an album by the Beatles. Each track becomes a massive hit, despite being...

We miss Pino Daniele’s music. Terra mia (My homeland) is a collage of old memories, some of them happy, some bitter, but nevertheless fascinating...

New York. Someone is playing jazz standards in a club. Two lovers are having a sweet slow dance immersed in a timeless cloud of...

  Tommy? Yes, indeed. If not the first, then certainly one of the first rock operas, and surely the greatest of them all, whose fame...

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture (Martin Mull) If we give credit to the aphorism of Martin Mull (for years erroneously attributed to Frank...

Iron Maiden are like a rite of passage, like the souped up exhaust of a motorcycle, like a cigarette smoked in the school toilets...

  The Stone Roses kicked the door open for guitar music in the late '80s They opened the door for us. There is a generation...