There were no casualties when War broke out at the Royal Festival Hall, just dancing in the aisles as the groundbreaking Seventies US funk rock troupe played their first show in the UK in 16 years.

There was a lot of music to discover in the 1970s. Funk and disco were hip, rock’n’roll was evolving into different forms of modern rock, and jazz continued to branch out into jazz fusion. Despite all ...

Rhythm and blues is an inclusive term that captures a wide swatch of American popular music that began to infiltrate the mainstream after WWII. It grew out of disparate sources: delta blues, country, ...