This jam from The Beatles has been hailed as one of the first heavy metal tunes ever made, but it also has proto-punk elements that can’t be ignored. McCartney himself admitted that the song was ...

The Buddhas, Limey & The Yanks (whose frontman Steve Cook was English), the splendidly named Ken & The Forth Dimension (sic) and the others on Lost Innocence obviously aspired to success. Their ...

Punk rock’s first wave didn’t last very long. It burned out nearly as quickly as the short songs of its most famous bands. But the scene wasn’t limited to what happened over a few years in the mid-70s ...