Latest articles by Dave Reynolds
The dashed hopes and early trauma of White Lion
White Lion's second album Pride went double platinum, but debut Fight To Survive was a different story altogether
The high hopes and shattered dreams of melodic rock's nearly men, Giuffria
When cult rockers Angel broke up, Gregg Giuffria formed another band – and they could have been huge
The story of the album that should have turned Angel into stars
In 1976 Angel released On Earth As It Is In Heaven: It turned out be be a mixed blessing
“It didn’t sell well in the States at all, but I learned later how popular it was in Europe”: cult US rockers LeRoux’s lost 1980 AOR masterpiece Up is the missing link between Toto, Kansas and Survivor
New Orleans rockers LeRoux shifted from funk-infused R&B to AOR - and made one of the great forgotten gems of the early 80s
“It was the first time I smoked pot and saw a naked girl. The next day I bought a guitar and swore to do this for a living”: how Paul Laine made cult AOR classic Stick It In Your Ear, the greatest Bon Jovi album Bon Jovi never made
Cult Canadian Paul Laine’s debut album Stick It In Your Ear is an early 90s hard rock lost treasure
“I’m a believer in things happening for a reason. If I had become a huge star then I may not be alive today”: how cult 70s soft rockers Desmond Child & Rouge launched the career of a songwriting superstar
Desmond Child has written multi-platinum songs for Bon Jovi, Kiss and Aerosmith – but it wouldn’t have happened if his own career as a musician hadn’t failed
“It was a no-brainer to get Jeff Porcaro from Toto to produce. He’d played on more hit records than anybody I knew”: how cult melodic rockers The Strand made the greatest AOR debut album you’ve never heard
What links Toto and Steve Irwin: Crocodile Hunter? Cult US rockers The Strand
“Had I known I was going to create a piece of history, I would have approached things differently”: how Only Child made one of the greatest cult hard rock debut albums ever
Paul Sabu is the man behind Only Child – the band beloved of AOR connoisseurs everywhere
“I wanted us to be the punk Monkees, the mainstream Ramones or Mötley Crüe with sneakers”: the story of Candy, the cult 80s LA glam rockers who produced a future Guns N’ Roses superstar
With their debut album, Whatever Happened To Fun?, LA power-pop outfit Candy should have been huge
“We got caught up in the hype. Maybe another label would have given us a clobber round the head”: how Angel delivered a 70s pomp rock classic with Helluva Band
Angel were tipped to become the next Kiss. That didn’t happen, but they still delivered a lost treasure with 1976’s Helluva Band album
