Those amazing records!

  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...

  For ten years, I’ve never been able to make up my mind if I’m a punk rocker or a soul boy, so why not...

A Rope Ladder to the Moon If there’s something that really pisses me of, it’s that in the chaotic world we happen to live in,...

Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, 16th May 1975 If only I could be one of the Kiss. Not any Kiss. The here and now Kiss! Tonight’s Kiss,...

Orfeo 9 forever It was 1974. I was 16 and had a girlfriend who had just given me Tito Schipa Jr’s Orfeo 9 (Orpheus 9),...

  Tarkus… how can I forget it? It was my very first LP, bought for 3500 lire at the ‘Disco Club’ in Milan at the...

  "With their diseases and orgasm drugs and their sexless parasite life forms - Heavy Metal People of Uranus wrapped in cool blue mist of...

  Headley Grange, East Hampshire. A characteristic Victorian house in the British countryside, with austere brickwork elegance and large windows overlooking an impeccable lawn. The...

  “You were there when we needed it”. These were Phil Collins’s last words to the 500.000 fans at the Genesis concert at Rome’s Circo...