Queens Without Crowns Seven women who remind us that rock was never meant to have a dress code There is a strange thing about rock music. We love to talk about rebels. The outsiders. The troublemakers. The people who kicked down doors, turned their amplifiers up too loud and refused to play by somebody else's rules. Yet somewhere along the way, rock history developed a habit of putting a surprisingly small number of women on the guest list. We've all heard the names. We know the obvious pioneers. We know the stadium stars. We know the women who became household names. But what about the women who never quite got their place in the pantheon? The musicians who played the clubs while somebody else got the magazine cover. The bands who toured relentlessly while history remembered somebody else. The women who weren't interested in being rock's token female presence because they had something much more important to do. They wanted to rock. That is what Queens Without Crowns i...
The World’s Longest Rock Sentence How many songs and bands can you find hiding inside one increasingly ridiculous sentence? We've done quizzes. We've done clues. We've made you identify bands from photographs. So naturally, the next logical step was to make things considerably more complicated. One sentence. Sixty hidden rock references. Every reference is either a song title or a band/artist name, and they are buried in one increasingly ridiculous story. Some you'll spot immediately. Some are hiding in plain sight. And some? Well… that's why we call this Hidden Gems. The rules Read the sentence once without stopping. Then read it again. And again. Every time you recognise a song or artist, write it down. There are 60 in total, appearing in a specific order. And yes, we've thrown in a healthy number of B-sides and deep cuts. Because making this easy would rather defeat the object, wouldn't it? 🤯 The Sentence The Who arrived at Baba O'Riley just as Th...