Before Jimmy Page became the legendary guitarist in Led Zeppelin, he cut his teeth as a prominent, but altogether anonymous session musician working on dozens of pop and rock records behind the scenes ...

Page met Farlowe at a Thunderbirds gig and convinced him to record a demo album, and they booked RG Jones Sound Studio in Morden, London. The 12 songs on Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds: The ...

Long before Jimmy Page played guitar in Led Zeppelin and the Yardbirds, he was a session guitarist and producer. In 1961, when he was still a teenager, he made his first venture into production: a ...

Van Morrison is releasing a new album, Roll With the Punches, on September 22. The first single he released from the LP was a cover of Sam Cooke’s “Bring It On Home to Me,” but for his second offering ...

The '60s British club scene had an abundance of full-throated singers, Chris Farlowe among the most accomplished, endorsed by Otis Redding and, supposedly, rejecting first stab at recording "Yesterday ...

Chris Farlowe was on a high at the time. His version of the Stones’s “Out of Time” had hit number one in July 1966. Though that was preceded by two other singles on Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog ...

Over the weekend, August 26 and 27, the annual Páirc Festival took place at the New Irish Centre in Birmingham. The event, which is billed as a celebration of Irish music and culture, was headlined by ...

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Van Morrison is promoting his upcoming album Roll With The Punches today by releasing a very solid new song called "Transformation." The album combines new Morrison compositions with covers of old ...