My parents repeatedly played Too Low For Zero in our car during the 80s, so Elton John reminds me vividly […]

I have no connection to Neil Young: I didn’t listen to him growing up, my family didn’t, my friends didn’t,

Seems strange in retrospect but, according to music critics like Ken Barnes and Simon Reynolds, the primary architect of 70s

Obviously it’s a bit of a cliché to say that the 60s were all peace, love, LSD, economic stability and

All the hippies that I went to school with loved Led Zeppelin, which is ample reason for me to dislike

With the hippie dream collapsing in the wake of Charlie Manson, Vietnam, and the failed student uprising of 1968, the

The 60s was about Real Men making Real Rock Music – the simian swagger of the Stones, the muscular Hendrix,