Top Of The Box

Roxy Music was responsible for producing some of the finest music of the 1970’s.  They began a long and illustrious career in 1970 when lead singer and songwriter Bryan Ferry formed an art rock group.
Their self-titled debut album and subsequent debut single, Virginia Plain, catapulted the band into the limelight and with it global commercial [...]

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Poly Styrene, whose real name was Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, has died aged 53 after losing her battle with cancer.  She is best known for fronting the original punk band, Xray Specs.

Xray specs – Gerrmfree Adolescence on Top Of The Pops from 1978.
Poly Styrene R.I.P

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Legendary blues and rock guitarist Gary Moore sadly died in his sleep in a hotel in Southern Spain at the weekend after checking in for a six day holiday at the Costa del Sol resort.
The former Thin Lizzy guitarist was said to be in good spirits in the bar of the hotel the night before [...]

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As a tribute to Gerry Rafferty who died this week at the age of 63 years old, here is his best known song Baker Street from 1978.
Rafferty had spent a long time battling a drink problem and had been receiving treatment in a Bournemouth hospital, he died peacefully at home however, with his daughter Martha [...]

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It is almost forty years since the release of the single Maggie May, the song that would change Rod Stewart’s life forever and catapult the gravelly voiced blues singer into the contemporary music arena.
A true pop classic in every sense of the word the double A sided single Maggie May/Reason To Believe became the fist [...]

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