Of all the sad musical losses over the years, this was the hardest for me. It was on this day (16 December) in 2001, in a hotel room in...

There was a song that I heard a lot when I was a young lad, amongst lots of great records I was played from the early 60s, that always...

For this geographically themed playlist, we are going, somewhat topically, given that it is the current centre of US political focus - to...

For the second of our run of geographically themed playlists, we head off to the musical mecca of northwest England - Liverpool. But this...

They influenced huge swathes of musicians from their contemporaries of the late 60s, all the way through to the 1990s and beyond. Yet,...

So, this time, we begin a series of geographical based playlists - based on the city / region / state that a bunch of musical artists are...

So, our recent 'interesting' gig watching The Lemonheads (see here) got me thinking about my other live music experiences over the years....

Every so often a song comes along - and no matter how many times you play it - ten, a hundred, a thousand - it gives you that strange,...

Well, it's getting to that time of year where it is tending to get a bit damp and dribbly outside - so what better way to mark that than...

Apart from the obvious, 11 September is also significant for a dramatic and tragic event with a musical connection, that happened thirty...

In this playlist I am looking at albums that I discovered during my teenage years. These are ones that are hugely important to me,...

To explain this playlist. We're just had a short holiday. Summer holidays are often associated with fun and good times - and so, the...

Here is another in my (very) occasional series of more in-depth looks at bands that I have crossed paths with over the last four decades....

It's a question that has been a key talking point for music fans since time immemorial. Okay, it might just be me - but it is a question...

Well, according to Classical Foundation Horsemanship - "When a horse is hollow, the muscles under the neck are flexed and the horse pulls...

I think I can be fairly confident in calling this playlist Covers 1, in that there will almost certainly be at least a part 2. If nothing...

Ah yes - the 'land of plenty' as Men At Work famously referred to Australia - and it is a country that has certainly (groan) produced...

An occasional collection of songs suggested for you using a given theme. For this playlist, I tried to think of some artists and tunes...

Separated by two days, and 5,300 miles, some children were born that would literally change the course of music history. It is quite hard...

He was a powerhouse, regarded by many as the best drummer on the scene in the 1980s, but on 14 June 1989, Pete de Freitas was killed in a...