John Bergstrom

Flashing Echo: The Jamaican Upsetter Singles 1973 Chapter 2 Doctor Bird Lee “Scratch” Perry’s fame and legendary status derive mostly from events that happened after he opened his Black Ark studio in late 1973. These events include the destruction of Black Ark in 1979, which Perry claimed occurred deliberately and at his own hand.

Mojave 3 (1995-2006) Boxset 4AD These days Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell are known for Slowdive. Up until that band’s reunion in 2014, though, they had spent more time making music with Mojave 3. After Alan McGee unceremoniously dropped Slowdive from his Creation Records label in 1995, vocalist/guitarist Halstead, vocalist Goswell, and latter-day Slowdive drummer McCutcheon quickly regrouped and recorded some demos.

Crush: 40th Anniversary Edition Virgin In 1988, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark served as the opening act for Depeche Mode‘s American tour. At one show, at Poplar Creek Music Theatre in Chicago, OMD’s singer Andy McCluskey lamented, “America is the only place we’re still cool.” This turn of events couldn’t have come as a complete surprise, though. In many ways, it was by design. OMD’s third album, Architecture & Morality (1981), had been a worldwide smash.