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“Dave Swarbrick would go berserk with his Echoplex”: The origins of Fairport Convention
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 1 week agoFairport Convention. Starting out as a bunch of young rockers, and with the input of late violinist...
“To me, it was like getting the car back on the road. The fact that we only managed to do about 10...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 5 months agoSimon Nicol. Along with Richard Thompson, Ashley Hutchings and Shaun Frater, guitarist Simon Nicol...
Bob Johnson, guitarist with folk-rock pioneers Steeleye Span who had a hit with the carol Gaudete –...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoBob Johnson, who has died aged 79, was a guitarist with Steeleye Span, the band which, together with...
Rick Wakeman, Trevor Horn, Focus and Big Big Train announced for 45th annual Cropredy Festival
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 6 months agoRick Wakeman. Rick Wakeman, Trevor Horn, Focus and Big Big Train are amiong the prog names who have...
The curious story of Free's debut album
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoFree circa 1972. At the time when the sunshine 60s were about to give way to the uncertain 70s, the Island Records label was seen by rock fans as a...
Every Pogues Album, Ranked
SPIN via Yahoo News· 6 months agoDarryl Hunt, The Pogues Bassist, Dies at 72 Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan was born on Christmas day in 1957 in Kent, England, and on his 30th birthday,...
A longstanding folk-rock band with a unique name is coming back to the area
Patriot Ledger via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe Slambovian Circus of Dreams is the psychedelic folk-rock band formed from the remnants of...
"One minute they were a band you'd never heard of, then the next you couldn't get into the gigs": In...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 5 months ago. Ground-breaking TV music program The Old Grey Whistle Test had been on air for only a year when...
Days of thunder: the triumph and tragedy of John Bonham
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJohn Bonham of Led Zeppelin posed at Rai in Amsterdam, Netherlands on May 27 1972 Drummer John...
"Led Zeppelin played to a crowd of 150,000, but no-one on the bill was looking for a big break or...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 5 months ago. Almost by the time the flames had gone out on his mangled Stratocaster and the wreckage had...
