The Plastic Mancunian

When I look at the way my musical taste has changed over the decades, there are several bands that have remained and excelled. One of those ...

I want to say goodbye to 2017 on a positive note and there is nothing more positive than music in my eyes. So if you w...

After last year, I didn’t think that 2015 would improve in terms of musical discoveries and new material but the truth is that i...

Rock music is dead. Or so it is claimed by purveyors of crap music, like Kanye West. It makes me laugh that there are so many p...

It’s a sign that I am getting older myself because the rock stars that I love are starting to fade. Yesterday I found out that anoth...

As you can see, I survived the first Christmas party – and jolly good it was too. Before the next one, tonight, I thought I would deviate fr...

Ritchie Blackmore is probably my very first guitar hero. In the late seventies, as my musical taste drifted towards hard rock and heavy meta...

Ten more. Chronological again … (61) Def Leppard – Desert Song Def Leppard are huge and appeal to those whose favourite genre isn’t necessar...

The next bunch – again roughly chronological … (31) Thin Lizzy – Thunder And Lightning “Thunder And Lightning” was the last album by Thin Li...

It was very difficult to whittle down my vast collection of rock music to a mere one hundred songs but I managed it. Here and for the next f...