Johnnys Rock Blogs

I’m sure you all know Gillan, but what about The Ian Gillan Band? I loved...

Did you have a favourite record shop? Conceptually, this still exists in a lesser scale...

How many different venues have you seen gigs? I was thinking about this the other...

Weather was different when we were teenagers, wasn’t it? Winters were snowy and cold, summers...

As you know, one of the great pleasures of album collecting that no other medium...

If you grew up in the 1970s, we were set a false standard for the...

If you’re not a record collector, what I'm about to tell you will seem mystifying...

After my initial enthusiasm for Purple, Tull, Man and Wishbone Ash, around 1978, I gravitated...

When I was 18, in my first year at college in Newcastle in 1979, it...

Do you remember when one of 'our' bands had a hit single? They were often...

Today, I’m inspired to write about one of my lifelong loves, Argent, after playing their...

Do records define certain periods in your life, regardless of when they come out? They...