Every musician strives to satisfy their fans, even though it can sometimes be challenging to discern their desires. Nonetheless, the primary focus remains on creating the best music possible, hoping it resonates with someone. However, rock and roll artists like Nirvana have been known to craft songs intended to challenge or provoke their audience rather […]
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Every musician strives to satisfy their fans, even though it can sometimes be challenging to discern their desires. Nonetheless, the primary focus remains on creating the best music possible, hoping it resonates with someone. However, rock and roll artists like Nirvana have been known to craft songs intended to challenge or provoke their audience rather […]
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When The Beatles released Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967, it didn’t really sound like any music they’d made up to that point, or like anything that anybody had ever made until then. It wasn’t even just the sounds that the band were making, but also in the way they were making those […]
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When talking about the grunge movement, it gets more than a little bit complicated talking about the relationship between Nirvana and Pearl Jam. They were both among the greatest rock and roll bands of their time, but whenever Cobain talked about them in interviews, you would have sworn that he was one of their biggest […]
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If you were tasked with forming a band and they had to share the musical skillset of one singular person collectively, Paul McCartney would be the wise pick. McCartney isn’t a jack of all trades, master of none. Instead, he’s a one-man band who can do it all with aplomb, and if he were able […]
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On July 6th, 1957, a 15-year-old Paul McCartney met a 16-year-old John Lennon at a gig where Lennon’s band, The Quarrymen, were performing their rock ‘n’ roll/skiffle renditions. At the time, of course, it was impossible for the two boys to know that together, they would revolutionise rock ‘n’ roll, while embarking on the most […]
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There was always a slight caveat put on everything Ringo Starr ever released after The Beatles split. He had no problem being considered one of the least adventurous songwriters out of the Fab Four, and sometimes it was better for him to get the best out of his friends rather than worry about racking his […]
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Whether an artist tries to block it out or not, the world around them always and inevitably comes floating in. It’s called contextualism, the theory that the meaning of an artwork is always shaped by the social, political and personal world in which it was created. With that in mind, it offers a useful perspective […]
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As Robert Plant was sitting on his sofa watching the 1978 World Cup, listening to the samba rhythms around the Argentine venues, he unknowingly was hatching an idea for what would prove to be the final single in the storied, decade-long run of Led Zeppelin. It was a song he wouldn’t personally perform with a […]
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Dr. Nick would later say that the public never truly understood what Elvis Presley lived with behind closed doors. To millions he was the King, a voice that shook the world, a man who seemed larger than life. But in the quiet moments of the examination room, when the lights faded and the crowds dispersed, […]
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