Dear Ozzy, So much has happened since I put on Black Sabbath Vol. 4 in my room one night at boarding school in 1981. The Catholic nuns were asleep down the hall. Of course, I had heard all the Sabbath ...

Radiohead’s second album The Bends was released on the 13th March, 1995 and exactly 30 years later to the day producer John Leckie joined Classic Album Sundays founder, radio host and DJ Colleen ...

By the summer of 1988, the group had released It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, an album that, on the surface, appeared just as militant as its title suggested. But within each of it’s ...

The Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement winning producer, composer, and musician reveals his all time favourites.

Why is Billie Holiday still considered as one of the greatest jazz voices of all time? Throughout her career and during the decades after her death, she has inspired some of the best vocalists of our ...

Slave to the Rhythm is an audio biography of Grace Jones produced by Trevor Horn, it’s a sonic treat along the lines of Yes’s 90125 or Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s first album. The music ranges from ...

This week’s episode of Behind The Counter season 6 features Off the Record in Milton Keynes. “Off the Record is a charity shop and it raises funds for Willen Hospice which is a local charity that is ...

This week’s episode of Behind The Counter season 6 features Phoenix Sounds in Devon. “This shop is the only one really around here, so it’s all about community. People come in, we know everyone by ...

Morrissey struggled with people of power in many ways, mostly because he desired to hold a position of high influence himself. When the singles leading up to The Queen Is Dead, ‘Shakespeare’s Sister’, ...

This week’s episode of Behind The Counter season 6 features Capsule Records in Brighton. “A record shop just ends up being a kind of hub for creative people to coalesce around. They come in on a ...

The band members may have been harmony singers but inter-band relationships were not exactly harmonious, especially during the troubled making of their classic folk-rock album.

Rick Wakeman joins Classic Album Sundays at The Royal Albert Hall on Monday July 2nd 2018. Get the lowdown on his Top 5 albums in advance.