Lead Singers

Let�s not mince words here, I want James Blunt dead. No �ifs�, no �buts�, just a bullet in the head. So will someone please put this bastard out of...

Now Green Day is a contentious issue..... All those old punks out there have been grumpily dismissing Green Day as no more than a pop band with no...

With so many rock n� roll superstars out there still in need of a BathroomWall T-shirt in their honour, it is not surprising that there are not that...

What do you remember from Live Aid? Other than Bob Geldof swearing on primetime TV, there were two acts that shone brighter than all others. Two acts...

It's no secret that at BathroomWall our chronologically ordered record collection starts to thin out a bit when you get into the 90s and is...

Along with Ronnie James Dio and Rob Halford, Bruce is up there as one of the ultimate heavy metal vocalists. It may well be Steve Harris�s band, but...

"On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert..." in that single line Bruce Springsteen eclipsed pretty much every other song-writer. If anyone else...

We all have things in our record collections that we could live without or that we would deny owning if we thought it would lead to ridicule, but for...

Anyone that invents a genre best described as cowboy goth rock can only be described as genius. A dust covered, gravel voiced, hat wearing genius...

I know that New York is always cool and that these days it is safe to go pretty much anywhere without too much fear of getting mugged, but surely it...

Dave Mustaine must have been one hell of drinker to have got thrown out of Metallica for being drunk. Such a blow would have smashed the heavy metal...

Let's leave aside the opinion dividing late 80s MTV stuff and remember that David Coverdale has one of the finest blues rock voices of them all, and...

Blondie�s Debbie Harry is the Queen of New York. End of story. The first lady of New Wave and responsible for awakening many a teenage boy�s...

More musically gifted than anyone during the rise of grunge could possibly have realised. While his peers self-destructed or simply lost the musical...

We all know the story about why he is called Fish, and some of use have even come to terms with the fact that he is not Marillion's singer anymore,...

Maybe if Frank had been a skinny good-looking guy with golden hair, the world would view him differently, but as things stand Black and the Pixies...

HE LIKES IT!!! Still gloriously unofficial, but boy was I relieved when I got a message from Ginger confirming that he liked this Ginger T-shirt. I...

Friction between singers & guitarists has been there since the dawn of rock n' roll. Egos, musical differences, women, drugs, booze, money & control...

Even that fat lad dancer from Stoke looked embarrassed when he won that special Brit Award a couple of years ago for the best British single of the...

All those Baby Boomers keep banging on about knowing where they were when they heard about the Kennedy assassination, the equivalent for us rockers...

Before Janis died, she made provision in her will for a party for her friends. After she died, her closest friends held that party, with a banner at...

So cool they named an ice cream after him. I wish they would name an ice cream after me

In contrast to our our Jimi Hendrix inspired T-shirt, this one is purely about the man and his guitar. Put aside the showmanship and mythology for a...

Let�s face it, most rock stars are selfish bastards. And even when they appear to do something altruistic it is with one eye on the press coverage...

I can never remember whether John Lydon is a great British institution, or whether John Lydon belongs in a Great British institution - probably a bit...

Jees, I remember the first time I saw the video to The Prodigy�s Firestarter. Wow. I had never seen anything like it before. Intense and fearsome,...

I was lucky enough to see Alice In Chains on their first trip outside the US when they came to London to play the Kerrang 10th Anniversary gig at the...

Possibly the only man that will outlive Keith Richards. Anyone else that was so misunderstood and misrepresented by the world would have a chip on...

Some things are open to debate. Who's the best guitarist, who's the greatest drummer etc. But who is the single most important vocalist and performer...

It is easy to forget just how broad Mark Knopfler�s reach in music over the last 30 years is. Mention his name and horrid images of day-glo headbands...

I first saw Cavalera live in March 1992 when I was one of the lucky few to get my mitts on a ticket to see Sepultura play the Amersham Arms in New...

One of my earliest rock heroes. I worshiped the Hanoi Rocks mainman. I wanted to sing like Michael Monroe, I wanted to move like Michael Monroe, I...

It is all too easy to get carried away by the mythology of Keith Richards when it comes to talking about the Stones. We forget that the reason we all...

Songwriter, Musician, Novelist, Screenwriter, Actor and got to make 'Where The Wild Roses Grow' with Kylie, I don't know about you but I'd be happy...

Long before he started morphing into the Queen Mum, Ozzy, was... well Ozzy was just fucking... Ozzy. He didn't need all that 'Prince of Darkness'...

How cool is Perry Farrell? I saw Jane�s Addiction at ULU in the early 90s (could have been late 80s) and it was one of the most mesmerising things I...

"Put A Little More Irish In You" There was such a charm to Phil Lynott, a charm that few other rock stars manage to pull off. Maybe it was the...

When Frank Sinatra calls you the only true genius in music, the chances are are that you are pretty good at what you do. But like many great...

SQUEEZE THAT LEMON...... A tribute to the frontman that influenced all that followed. You know all you need to know about Robert Plant, so I won't...

King of the concept album � Lord only knows what goes through Walters�s head, but as millions of Floyd fans will testify, when toking on a joint,...

Away from the American South, the theory goes that rednecks can not be cool. Well, Ronnie van Zant and Kenny Roberts obviously prove that such a...

The first lady of punk and style icon that has influenced so many that followed. Anyone hailed by artists so diametrically opposed as Morrissey, the...

Wherever you stand on the subject of Paul Weller, the fact remains that he only carries the moniker of �The Mod Father� because of Marriott�s...

There is a train of thought that once Fleetwood Mac let women in the band that they were finished. OK, so they may have been finished as a white boy...

Where would an entire generation of music fans be without this guy? Although just two Pink Floyd albums featured Barrett, his influence kept on...

Admit it, when you first heard �Creep� you thought, �cool single, but a bit of a Nirvana rip-off� and after a few listens you moved on to listening...

A musical visionary and true genius of alternative rock music. Trent Reznor with Nine Inch Nails has transcended the status of being merely iconic...

When it comes to classic Atlantic soul, there can be few more iconic performances than Wilson Pickett's Mustang Sally. Many others have belted out...

A T-SHIRT TRIBUTE TO THE LATE GREAT ZIGGY STARDUST....yeah, I know he didn't really die after Aladdin Sane, but it kinda felt like it. So if you...