Rock Star Academy & Landmarks

With our "Rosie's Place" and "Riff Raff Club" T-shirts we honour the early days of AC/DC with the great Bon Scott, but with this "Shoot To Thrill Gun...

OK, so there have been periods of Eric Clapton's career that have been less than stellar (mainly when he quit the brown and started writing easy...

There is no wrong answer to the question "What is your favourite AC/DC album?" (other than Ball Breaker, obviously), but the consensus of opinion in...

Kiss divides opinion. There are those that love Kiss & then there are those that are wrong. There is a similar debate to be had when discussing your...

Once upon a time, Aerosmith were America's greatest ever rock band, snorting half of Peru, knocking up Playboy models & recording some of the...

Despite a cracking album in the form of 1989�s Pump, Aerosmith have barely written more than a handful of tracks worth listening to since Steve Tyler...

In days of old the race for Christmas Number 1 was quite exciting. Slade vs Wizzard. Would The Pogues reach number one with Fairytale of New York?...

If like the Beastie Boys you "Like Your Sugar With Coffee & Cream" then you best brew a smooth cup of Intergalactic Coffee.... As for Messrs Yauch,...

In 1967 the Beatles headed off to study Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his International Meditation Academy in at the 'Yoga...

"When L.A. falls in the fucking ocean and is flushed away, all it will leave is Arizona Bay." Surely this Bill Hicks inspired Arizona Bay Real Estate...

Who'd have thought that Black Sabbath, the original heavy metal pioneers would have written one of the definitive anti-war songs? Today, so many...

I Ain't Gonna Work On Maggie's Farm No More.... Carrying on the great folk protest traditions on Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, there has never been...

A Bob Marley T-shirt without a marijuana leaf on it? Whatever next? Don't worry, we're not judging people's use of recreational drugs, just against...

Taking's it's cues from so many rock epics, Dry County may not be played live quite as often as fans would like, but that doesn't stop it being one...

"We Learned More From A 3 Minute Record Than We Ever Learned In School" and in that one line Bruce Springsteen once again proved that he has a better...

"Well they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month" - and here is the T-shirt that would probably have been worn by Ralph as he hit that...

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

It is easy to dismiss Captain Beefheart, especially on works like Trout Mask Replica as wilfully weird. I have to admit when I first encounter...

We all think our folks are a little weird, don't we? Aside from being a perfect pop rock single, Surrender reminds us that mum & dad used to have a...

The fact that The Clash's Guns of Brixton pre-dates the Brixton Race Riots of the early 80s just proves how essential they were. Not just as punk's...

We all know the heritage of the Cold Chisel debut single Khe Sanh with it's story of government betrayal of it's war veterans and their search for...

Ever wondered what happened to Willy & The Poor Boys after they graduated from playing foot tappin' playing Down On The Corner for nickels? So did...

Gimme a "D". Gimme an "arkness". To those people that dismiss The Darkness as a joke... they're wrong. What the hell is wrong with having a sense of...

Suffragette City is quite probably my favourite David Bowie track - and certainly my favourite Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars song. So it...

Da da daaa... da da daaa daaaa.... Wooo hooo, one of rock's most awesome riffs is also the easiest to play, so we can all sound like guitar gods...

Leaving the safety of a band like Steely Dan to do your own thing was always going to be a risk, but there again not everyone is the great Donald...

"The King's Diner - Las Vegas - Home of the World's Finest Fools Gold Sandwich." Yes, we know that the original home of Fool's Gold Sandwich was the...

In the mid-70s British rock bands ruled the world. Even the best American bands, couldn't compete with Led Zep, the Stones, The Who etc. But my...

During the recording of Fleetwood Mac's masterpiece, Rumours, the relationship between Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham took the idea of a thin line...

An awesome song and an awesome video from a feckin' awesome band. The lyrics may have come out of Dave Grohl's rather painful marriage break-up, but...

When it comes to great rock voices we all always come up with the same usual suspects, but all to often forgotten is Foreigner's Lou Gramm. I've only...

Probably above every other artist that has inspired us to design a T-shirt, Frank Zappa makes us the most nervous. Not because we think he is about...

"Guards of Mogog - Bringing Down Fire From The Skies". Unique doesn't even begin to cover Genesis's masterpiece, Supper's Ready. So what if you have...

Ever since I first saw Green Day tearing up Brixton Academy (with the criminally under-rated and truly brilliant D-Generation in support)I've been...

Guns N Roses' classic Paradise City makes LA sound like such a jolly place.... OK, maybe not, but sleazy, grimey and hedonistic is what we all want...

Some things are up for debate and discussion. We could talk about favourite riffs, greatest guitarist or best Led Zeppelin album and happily agree to...

Rock n' roll has always done a great line is prostitutes & loose women. Obviously AC/DC are kings of this sub-genre, but with Charlotte The Harlot...

Greetings from a Town Called Malice....Better Stop Dreaming of the Quiet Life - Paul Weller's ode to his home town of Woking. Really? The whole world...

Jimi's Guitar Repair Shop - For when you absolutely, positively just have to set fire to your guitar. Like other T-shirts in our Rock Star Academy...

The music of John Coltrane is both inspirational and evocative - close your eyes for a moment as he flies and you're sat at a table in a dimly lit...

I used to think of country as right wing nut jobs in big hats and spangley shirts singing over sentimental songs. That was until I got into Johnny...

When you record something as culturally significant as "At Folsom Prison" then it takes serious balls to try the same trick again. Most people would...

The debate about whether bands should continue without key members has several side. The likes of AC/DC that did it just fine, but you also have the...

Legend has it that when Keef was up in front of the beak on drugs charges, he called his doctor as a witness to confirm that even though the amount...

For those that know their rock n' roll history, The Kinks are so much more than another British Invasion band. They may not have hit the commercial...

If there was one rock star that would have been just at home owning a brewery as being in the studio or on stage then despite the tragic...

Another iconic rock n' roll landmark T-shirt. The address of 96 & 98 St Marks Place on the Lower East Side of Manhattan may not sound familiar (it's...

Along with Keith Richards, the is no one that represents Rock N' Roll like Motorhead's Lemmy. A shining beacon of rock cool amongst a sea of posers....

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...

"I was cutting the rug at a place called the Jug" sang Ronnie Van Zant. The Jug in question being the long since closed Little Brown Jug in the...