Tag: Paolo Fappani

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...

  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...

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,...

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...

Los Angeles, 1987. The Sunset Strip shimmers, swarms to a hybrid beat of pop, metal and glam fashion. Harley Davidsons, fishnet stockings, studs, black...