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Lost and Found
Fuzzbox, or We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It!!, were for everyone in 1989. Girls loved their swaggering brand of colourful feminism, boys just thought they looked fantastic. …
Lost & Found: Siouxsie And The Banshees – Tinderbox
Siouxsie and the Banshees were post-punk’s greatest exponents. Tinderbox allowed them to maintain the energy of their heyday while prove conclusively that times had changed. Their seventh LP had…
Lost & Found: Rod Stewart – Out Of Order
Like contemporaries, David Bowie and Elton John, Rod Stewart struggled to react to the ever-unrolling 1980s, and was lambasted for clinging on to the coattails of youthful synth-pop when it…
Lost & Found: Midge Ure – The Gift
A brilliant chorus and a newly- acquired global reputation as a humanitarian meant that Midge Ure couldn’t possibly fail with his signature single, If I Was, in the summer of…
Lost & Found: Hot Chocolate – Love Shot
Hot Chocolate were a classic example of the music snob’s contempt for an act that was far from cool but massively popular. Love Shot, the band’s eighth studio album, was…
Lost & Found: Bryan Adams – Into The Fire
Everyone knew someone who had a copy of Reckless, the huge breakthrough album by Bryan Adams that contained Run To You, Summer Of 69 and so on. Yet when he…
Lost & Found: Elton John – Leather Jackets
Elton John’s life troughed in the mid-80s, with a delinquent drug habit and a stodgy body of work. His 20th album, supposedly a milestone recording for him, remains the least…
Lost & Found
Lost & Found is our regular journey into a world of music that, we feel, has been forgotten about over the years by either the media, the music business or…