5150 Van Halen Vinyl Atlas Album Cover

5150 Van Halen Vinyl Atlas Album Cover

5150 is Van Halen’s 7th studio album and was released on March 24, 1986. It was put out by Warner Bros. and was the first album with former Montrose vocalist Sammy Hagar. David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen had a troubled relationship and a clash of musical interests. This led Roth to leave for…

The Myth and Magic of Sgt Pepper

The Myth and Magic of Sgt Pepper

Associate Professor Mark Pollard Very much a product of its time, the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album was the soundtrack to the 1967 Summer of Love; a psychedelic explosion of sound and colour that pushed back against the last vestiges of Victorian values. Celebrated by many, criticized as over-hyped by others, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club…