Legendary local bluesman Rick Steele, father of Empire of the Sun star Luke Steele and Little Birdy singer Katy Steele, has ...

Tougher than glam rock and pre-dating punk by a couple of years, the Heavy Metal Kids were swashbuckling rock’n’roll pirates fronted by doomed livewire Gary Holton. In 2004, Classic Rock traced the ...

Advertisers never cease to amaze. I never expected to hear these songs in commercials but we live in a strange time.

Henry VIII is recognised as supreme head of Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury. 1702: Queen Anne ...

Molland had several local connections, including occasional membership in a band led my former Steve Miller Band guitarist ...

The music industry has grown into a behemoth in the last 60 years, as perfectly exemplified by these titans of sound who have ...

Joey Molland, the last member of Badfinger’s classic lineup, has died at the age of 77 ... Turmoil and financial hardship consumed the band, due largely to the embezzlements of their fraudulent ...

AC/DC were formed in Sydney in 1973 by ... Lead guitarist Angus Young is the only founding member still with the band, as Scott died in 1980 and his brother Malcolm passed away in 2017.

Liverpool-born drummer Gordon “Snowy” Fleet, the man who put the beat in The Easybeats, has died ... AC/DC, quickly became like family. All five Easybeats were migrants, with Wright born in Leeds, ...

On this day (February 19) in 1980, the rock and roll world lost a legend when AC/DC vocalist Bon Scott (born Ronald Belford Scott) died at the ... Australian rock band. Before his days with ...

But then the Bon Scott era of the band was far removed from the polished professionalism of the AC/DC of present day ... The roughest, toughest member of the gang, Bon quickly became leader.

Out of all the band members to replace, lead singers are always the trickiest. There might be a handful of bands that can manage to pull it off, like Black Sabbath and AC/DC, but when you have someone ...