Behind The Counter is a 12-part video series that tells the stories from the wonderful world of independent record shops.

In 1972 Led Zeppelin were Rock Gods. Their 1971 album (known as “Led Zeppelin IV”) was a behemoth slab of vinyl, taking the band to new dizzying heights with its commercial success and becoming one of ...

Saxophonist John Coltrane was not a child musical prodigy but instead was the eternal student who diligently studied the sound and technique of his predecessors: Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Dexter ...

It’s a safe bet to assume you haven’t heard many albums that weave robots, kung-fu and a young Japanese woman into their central theme. To be frank, it’s a concept that just shouldn’t work. But in the ...

Radiohead’s second album The Bends was released on the 13th March, 1995 and exactly 30 years later to the day producer John Leckie joined Classic Album Sundays founder, radio host and DJ Colleen ...

As the 1980s drew to a close, hip hop had reached a pivotal moment. Whilst a potential for empowerment in mainstream rap had so far remained largely un-tapped, in favour of escapist music built for ...

I cannot remember when I first heard Kraftwerk, but it doesn’t matter as much of the pop music that I was listening to in my formative years was born out of Kraftwerk’s artistic mission – to make ...

How do you follow up a Grammy Award-winning hit album like ‘OK Computer’? Much like Pink Floyd following up their blockbuster ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’, Radiohead were under an immense amount of ...

How did an album about mental illness, mortality and the need for human empathy become one of the most classic, iconic albums of all time staying on the US Billboard Charts for 741 weeks (14 years)?

Love “Forever Changes” is one of the seminal sixties albums and one of the top psychedelic albums of all times according to serious music fans and critics. The band may not be familiar to many people ...

“I just wanted to cram everything into a record that these people had ignored which left me everything.” – Lou Reed to Joe Smith for blankonblank The era of the late Sixties usually brings to mind the ...

Eddy Grant has long been on the Classic Album Sundays list of legends and it was a true honour to host an evening with not only an amazing artist, but also an entrepreneur, a family man and a ...