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Great stuff. Polly's daughter's documentary about her is quite moving. Her importance as a role model for a lot of British women in music seems to have been much under-appreciated.

It seemed that in the eighties the worst possible insult you could throw at anyone was 'poser'. I remember my horror a few years back when high street shops started selling Ramones and Motorhead t-shirts to kids that had never heard of them. I tried to explain to my kids the level of...

The thread seems to have headed towards 'classic rawk' very quickly. I'm presuming that most were seeing soul, reggae & R&B as different genres, separate to the question. If not, then you'd have to question some of the suggestions. A thread of the best vocal performances ever in all popular...

My experience, through my kids, is that musical tribes are mostly a thing of the past. Mine listen to chart pop and dance music, but also to all the pop punk stuff from the nineties that, for some reason, still dominates Kerrang TV. Their friends may lean towards dance or rock, but they all...

In the early 1960s David Walker was a member of the Mighty Clouds of Joy gospel group. In 1962/3 he was asked by the brother of Link Wray if he would like to do vocals on a novelty record. He did it under a pseudonym to avoid any potential trouble that may have come from recording a secular...