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Springsteen’s Country. The Boss has long shared common ground with the “three chords and the truth” school of country music. His…

Billy Idol. Dream Into ItHe’s come a long way from the Roxy Club. Now 69, Middlesex-born Billy looks back on…

 Few stars embraced rock ‘n’ roll’s life-threatening extremities as enthusiastically as Billy Idol. But the Middlesex-born rocker tells me he…

Ian Broudie remembers the first time he was recognised in public. It was the summer of 1989 and the fledgling…

Sex Pistols – Live In The USA 1978These three shows from the Pistols’ ill-starred American tour in January 1978 have…

Ringo Starr. Look Up.There is no calculation about Ringo’s return to country, no Svengali telling him it’s the ‘in’ market…

Bill Bailey had just finished a long set at the Craigmore Centre in Drumnadrochit, a village on the breathtakingly beautiful…

It was like a spine-chilling scene from the gothic horror films Dave Vanian had always loved. A violent storm blew…