When Bruce Springsteen finally broke through to national recognition in the fall of 1975 after a decade of trying, critics hailed him as the savior of rock & roll, the single artist who brought together all the exuberance of '50s rock and the thoughtfulness of '60s rock, molded into a '70s style. He rocked as hard as Jerry Lee Lewis, his lyrics... [+] Read More

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After spending the '80s as an unappreciated jangle pop guitarist with Oh-OK and Lloyd Cole, as well as a solo artist, Matthew Sweet emerged in 1991 as the leading figure of the American power pop revival. Like his British counterparts Teenage Fanclub, Sweet adhered to traditional songcraft, yet subverted the form by adding noisy post-punk guitar... [+] Read More

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Italian Euro-pop vocalist Nek (b. Filippo Neviani) began playing guitar and drums at the age of nine, and studied music for several years in the early '80s. By the later half of the decade, he had begun singing professionally and two of his early singles, "Winchester" and "White Lady," both became sizeable Italian hits. He released his debut... [+] Read More

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Italian pop singer Renato Zero debuted in 1973 with his album No! Mamma No!; he had released earlier material though, collected on 1982's Via Tagliamento 1965-1970. He released five additional albums during the '70s (including the hits Trapezio, Zerofobia and Erozero) and hit the 1980s in stride with a double-album, Tregua. Zero was even busier... [+] Read More

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By the time the Rolling Stones began calling themselves the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the late '60s, they had already staked out an impressive claim on the title. As the self-consciously dangerous alternative to the bouncy Merseybeat of the Beatles in the British Invasion, the Stones had pioneered the gritty, hard-driving blues-based... [+] Read More

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Worlds Apart hit the French charts in 1996 with its Everybody LP, recorded for EMI. Don't Change appeared the following year. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

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