An incident you may have forgotten or been unaware of – but back in 1981, Her Majesty The Queen was shot at several times during the annual Trooping Of The Colour. In those days, the Queen rode side saddle down the Mall from Buckingham Palace to Horse Guards Parade and that’s when an unemployed military…
Gary Numan was beaten up in the music press back in 1980 and criticised by David Bowie but his music was actually rather good
This was Big Country performing on Channel Four’s Tube programme. Every week, Paula Yates and Jools Holland would ramble pretentiously or incoherently with cues between presenters either deliberately fumbled or they were creating an edgy feel, who knows? Paula Yates no longer with us of course and neither is the front man of the band,…
Some bands have gone through very odd changes. Here were punksters Subway Sect thrashing around pretty tunelessly in 1976. Then three of them came back with a new leader – Dig Wayne from Ohio – to become Jo Boxers. Dig Wayne went on to greater things as you can see here being an actor in…
