Brilliant Record Mirror cover featuring The Motors
Brilliant Record Mirror cover featuring The Motors. These were pained front covers not photographs.
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Adam and the Ants – Prince Charming – the fan club
Adam and the Ants – Prince Charming – the fan club
1981 riot in Coventry
1981 saw a riot in Coventry over racism attended by boxer Errol Christie while The Specials played a gig of unity at The Butts stadium
Neville Staple joins The Specials
Tony McMahon co-wrote the biography of Neville Staple of The Specials titled Original Rude Boy published by Aurum Press in 2009
Neville Staple biography reviewed in the Huffington Post
Original Rude Boy is the biography of Neville Staple front man in The Specials and the book was co-authored with Tony McMahon
Record Mirror front covers from the late 70s
Record Mirror had some amazing front covers in the late 70s with pop stars like Siouxsie Sioux and Debbie Harry
What did David Bowie think of Gary Numan?
Gary Numan was beaten up in the music press back in 1980 and criticised by David Bowie but his music was actually rather good
Big Country and the guitar bagpipe sound
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,…
Subway Sect to Jo Boxers
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…