Great guitar riffs are in rock music’s DNA. They’re right at the heart of what makes a song memorable, and […]
Two giants of music left us this year. Malcolm Cecil invented TONTO – the analogue synthesiser that drove Stevie Wonder’s […]
I was playing Blowing In The Wind on the recorder in primary school. My pimpled teenage self ranted for Rubin […]
The recorded music era began in the late 1800s, making it possible for musicians to become widely known. Radio spread […]
We’re embarking on a journey of discovery, exploring the way popular music changes over time. We start in 1941, when […]
The Rolling Stones were on a roll. Their ninth album, Sticky Fingers, was another high point on a golden run […]
Rock music mythology is brimming with faith and excess, spirit and flesh, vision and madness. The most compelling acts seem […]
Pop and rock music is so often about love, lust, attraction. Relationships – and to have one of those, at […]
Music industry orthodoxy has it that you sell lots of albums by having a good looking woman on the cover. […]
In 1963, Philips launched the audio cassette, a compact recording and playback format invented by Lou Ottens. It was the […]
In the 1950s and 60s, successful songs had sequels. Part two. What happened next? Like authors and film-makers, songwriters and […]
The western world first noticed reggae in 1974, via Eric Clapton’s cover of I Shot The Sheriff, with audiences soon […]
Music evolves. Each new style inspires another. We can reach back to the dawn of recorded music in the 1870s, […]
At their peak, The Beatles were the most imitated band on the planet, with groups all over the world copying […]
Michael Gudinski was a rare blend of business nous and musical vision, entrepreneur and muse. His boundless passion for Australian […]
The first truly reliable way to share sound recordings was on a fragile disc of shellac that spun at 78rpm […]
