In 1976, Thin Lizzy were touring Jailbreak in the US and breaking big. Then disaster struck. Band manager Chris O’Donnell ...

Adult Orientated Rock (some prefer the term 'Album Oriented') has frequently been sidelined by "serious" music critics, many ...

Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley has always praised one Led Zeppelin album in particular, and he explains the albums that changed ...

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Every label had passed on the future AOR superstars, including their eventual ... "I don't know if this is for me." There's no songs, we're just jamming. It's fun to jam, but I thought we'd ...

Unrelentingly Northern in attitude, both parts the slow-burning band that split in two seemed happy with their lot – but is their story one of unfulfilled achievements?

As indie music fans developed a taste for gothic rock in the mid-1980s, Balaam and the Angel were one of those that flourished. Following the success of the EPs World of Light and Love Me on their own ...

Our face probably fitted because at the time Live Free or Die was number one in the AOR charts in the States ... We’ll play the old songs as well, stuff people expect to hear, but (the ...

Phil Lesh, the bassist for the Grateful Dead who propelled many of its wildest musical explorations yet also composed and sang one of its loveliest songs ... from the AOR-oriented albums ...

“Feed My Frankenstein” was one of the songs that fuelled his early 90s comeback on the Hey Stoopid album, which successfully harnessed the Alice persona to the AOR sound of the time.

The producer suggested their songs were too complex to work for other ... Or place a stuttering sax solo in the middle of the sleek AOR of “Dirty Work”? Elsewhere, “Kings” and “Fire ...