Johnny Sharp
Johnny is a regular contributor to Prog and Classic Rock magazines, both online and in print. Johnny is a highly experienced and versatile music writer whose tastes range from prog and hard rock to R’n’B, funk, folk and blues. He has written about music professionally for 30 years, surviving the Britpop wars at the NME in the 90s (under the hard-to-shake teenage nickname Johnny Cigarettes) before branching out to newspapers such as The Guardian and The Independent and magazines such as Uncut, Record Collector and, of course, Prog and Classic Rock.
Latest articles by Johnny Sharp

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Paragon is the debut solo album from Nightwish singer Floor Jansen

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How UK prog rockers Galahad's made their eleventh studio album, 2018's Seas Of Change, amid fluctuating line-up upheaval

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A tenth anniversary expansion for Alabama Shakes' southern rock’n’soul landmark, Boys & Girls

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How maverick Britrocker Ginger Wildheart survived another messy divorce to shack up with his new band, Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners

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The story of how the Alan Parsons Project went stratospheric with 1982's Eye In The Sky

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Other Worlds sees songs from The Pretty Reckless's Death By Rock And Roll reconfigured, with added Soundgarden and David Bowie

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Clutch's Neil Fallon and Jean-Paul Gaster on the making of thirteenth studio album Sunrise On Slaughter Beach

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Maverick northwest crowd-pleasers Massive Wagons deliver once again on sixth album Triggered!

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Harlow political punk perennials the Newtown Neurotics battle on against the odds with new album Cognitive Dissidents

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Major label debut She Said sees Los Angeles quartet Starcrawler going in search of new sounds

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The third and earliest show in Kiss's official bootleg series, Des Moines 1977, finds a distant audience enjoying an upfront performance

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Trad-blues trio GA-20 get closer to the source on third album Crackdown

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Re-formed Britrockers Grand Theft Audio are down to a duo on Pass Me The Conch, with no ill effects

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Not yet ratedJohn Mitchell solo project retains momentum on fifth album

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A seismic cultural shift: Watch Mick Jagger try and explain the counterculture to the editor of The Times, a lord, a bishop and a jesuit priest

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Was inmate Merle Haggard in the audience when Johnny Cash played at San Quentin prison?

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Austria-based British agitpunks Petrol Girls sharpen their hooks on third album Baby

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The Beastie Boys video that had unintended consequences: thousands of Volkswagon owners complaining that their Beetles and Golfs had been vandalised

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With glam rock sweeping the charts, Malcolm Young was determined AC/DC wouldn't be left behind.... so he dressed the band like the Village People

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David Bowie was the name on everyone's lips in early 1973 - and then he did he first televised full UK interview

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Ever the maverick, Shooter Jennings teamed up with rapper Yelawolf, and the result is a heartland rock record spiked with thrash, country, electronica and moonshine recipes

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Forty years on, the Chris Tsangarides-produced Reactivate becomes a debut album for Essex rockers Prowler

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In 2021 Kayak released their 18th album Out Of This World. At the time, they didn't realise it would be their final farewell
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