R&b From The Marquee

2009 album from the Swiss Hard Rockers. Produced by Rick Chicky (Aerosmith/Rush/etc), the band have created a collection which is able to combine emotional Rock songs with haunting mainstream elements in perfect harmony. An album which convinces with rough, dynamic and hasty attitudes but stands also for experience, maturity and composure. Many of the tracks on Need to Believe are proof that Gotthard are an amazing band without any compromises. Songs as the diverse and dazzling 'Shangri La' or the Rock hymn 'Need to Believe' demonstrate the all-embracing contribution the band makes to the scene.

No single box set–however sumptuously packaged, however comprehensively compiled–could hope to contain the bewildering, diverse array of musical styles and opinions that was brought together under the loose description "punk" between 1976 and 1979. There were so many fresh ideas and concepts–the final, irreversible emancipation of women in rock and the creation of an entirely new, non-R&B, guitar-based music form–contained within that one word, no compilation could hope to represent it fairly. 1-2-3-4 has a damn good try, though. Five CDs, featuring 100 tracks from the good, bad and downright ugly of punk.

No single box set–however sumptuously packaged, however comprehensively compiled–could hope to contain the bewildering, diverse array of musical styles and opinions that was brought together under the loose description "punk" between 1976 and 1979.

Discovered: In May 1968 a very young musician named Wolfgang Michels with the pseudonym "One Plus None" landed a No. 2 hit in England with "Desert Walker", a song produced by himself, topped only by the Rolling Stones at No. 1. The blues musician Alexis Korner invited Michels to London and took him under his wings.
Percewood's Onagram: The psychedelic rock band Percewood's Onagram, with Michels as singer and guitarist, caused a sensation in the early 1970s as the first German indie band; …