Hail Hail Rock'n'Roll

An ongoing trip through the music, the myths and the madness

The Bonus Tracks

6 Music Xmas special!

News just in: there’s a two hour Hail! Hail! Rock’n’Roll radio programme going out on BBC 6 Music on Boxing Day, featuring loads of our favourite rock ephemera and nonsense and narration/presentation from JH. Confirmation is here, along with a picture of a headless fella playing a guitar. We just say TUNE IN. Please.

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Electric roulette

A lovely review of the book…

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Vote Kiss!

The ballot for this year’s inclusions in the US Rock’n'Roll Hall Of Fame has just been announced

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Let’s ‘Werk together

A belated link to my Guardian interview with the great Ralf Hutter

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  • As inventive, untamed and adorable as a John Squire guitar solo

    Tony Parsons

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    • By way of a reminder of how absurdly great Kiss could be, here’s a Spotify 12-tracker, including the best hits and more

    • One more playlist, before tea: a quick sprint through the lovely sounds of effects units

    • A 12-tracker charting the wildly oscillating and usually disappointing progress of The Rolling Stones through the 1980s

    • To enlighten readers further, a playlist inspired by the magic of less-than-gigantic music genres, as detailed on pages 78-80

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