In not much more than a decade, The Beatles managed to write around 230 songs, depending on who you ask. That’s roughly 21 a year. Considering that they now have 21 number-one singles to their name, you wouldn’t be far wrong if you said a tenth of their work was chart-topping. Needless to say, that’s […]
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During his momentous rise to musical stardom, Elvis Presley had the kind of Midas touch befitting of a man dubbed ‘The King’, amassing a then-unprecedented plethora of chart-topping hits and transforming countless otherwise obscure songs into essential parts of the rock and roll canon. There was a time, however, during which that power started to […]
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When a band ceases activity prematurely, regardless of the reason why, if there’s enough of a fanbase around them, they’ll begin to create their own mythologies of what could have been had they been able to continue. One of the greatest examples of this is Nirvana, who were forced to separate after the loss of […]
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During his momentous rise to musical stardom, Elvis Presley had the kind of Midas touch befitting of a man dubbed ‘The King’, amassing a then-unprecedented plethora of chart-topping hits and transforming countless otherwise obscure songs into essential parts of the rock and roll canon. There was a time, however, during which that power started to […]
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What’s the wildest rock and roll injury story you can remember? Bob Dylan crashing his motorbike, Patti Smith breaking her neck onstage in 1977, Pete Townshend impaling his hand on his whammy bar during The Who’s reunion tour in 1989 (which they obviously should have called their re-Whonion tour) or the time that Keith Richards […]
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Elvis‘ cultural reach was broad and far, and The King influenced just about every rock band during the 1960s. While many of them might have turned against him in due course, it would be wrong to forget how much he moved them in the first place. With his swinging hips, greased hair, and sultry sound, […]
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Having spent numerous years performing alongside John Bonham, one of the greatest rock and roll drummers to ever grace the airwaves with his presence, it is fair to say that former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant knows a gifted percussionist when he hears one, even if his own output has always been further towards the […]
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Night did not arrive with spectacle. It came quietly, settling into the room like a held breath. Five names long carried by history stepped into the same space and allowed silence to lead. Julian Lennon. Sean Lennon. Dhani Harrison. Zak Starkey. James McCartney. Each arrived not as a symbol, not as a headline, but as […]
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Every artist has their muse; whether it’s Andy Warhol’s obsession with Edie Sedgwick or David Hockney’s lifelong love of smoking. Few people can claim to have been quite such an inspiring muse as Pattie Boyd, though, whose beauty spawned a litany of legendary love songs from a multitude of songwriters, spanning the spectrum from Ron […]
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When it was released on his 2012 album Kisses on the Bottom, the track ‘My Valentine’ immediately stood out as one of the better original Paul McCartney compositions of the past few decades. Since most of the selections from that terribly titled album were covers of time-tested jazz and pop standards, Macca put himself into […]
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