Ben Forrest

If you can stand the mental strain, cast your minds back to , focusing primarily on the music of the time, rather than the untold horrors unfolding in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Lou Reed was famously hard to please when it came to music, but he found a deep appreciation for the punk pioneers The Ramones during the early days of CBGB.

The idea that awful, despicable people can still be capable of producing great art is one of the hardest facts to reckon with, as a music fan or cultural consumer.

Ever since the dawn of pop, the singles charts of the US and the UK have shared many of the same names.

There once was a time when the mention of ‘ geese ' conjured up serene images of tranquil lakes or, perhaps, the vicious personalities of the species' Canadian cousins, but those days are over.

Over 60 years on from when it was first defined by Berry Gordy's roster of R&B revolutionaries, the elusive ‘ Motown sound' still represents the

Lennon-McCartney was a songwriting partnership of untold power, but a side effect of the universality of their writing meant that, in many cases, The

Back in 2001, a new sitcom appeared on British television screens that was equal parts groundbreaking and monotonous, exciting and rather

Across Motown 's vast and ever-expanding soul empire back in the 1960s, there was no sharper weapon in Berry Gordy's arsenal than Marvin Gaye; the

Names like Melvin Franklin, Otis Redding, and Marvin Gaye made the 1960s a veritable heyday for soul music, with the likes of Stax and Motown typifying the sound, spirit, and resistance of that decade.