During The Beatles’ 1966 tour of the United States, it was put to John Lennon and Paul McCartney that Time magazine had reported their song ‘Day Tripper’ to be about a prostitute, and ‘Norwegian Wood’ about a lesbian. When asked what their intentions behind the songs were, McCartney quipped in response, “We were just trying […]
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There were no pyrotechnics timed to impress. No unnecessary excess meant to distract. What filled the air instead was something far more dangerous — electricity waiting to be struck. When Led Zeppelin stepped into a room, rock music did not behave politely. It did not ask permission. It did not play quietly. It stood upright, […]
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Time does not usually reverse itself. Yet tonight, inside Abbey Road Studios, it seemed to pause—then open. In Studio Two, where searching melodies once formed under late-night lamps, Sean and Julian Lennon stepped into a chapter of music history and allowed it to breathe again. What unfolded was not nostalgia, and it was not reenactment. […]
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Although Freddie Mercury was a frontman, he appreciated showmen of all shapes and sizes across the entertainment industry. While they may not have been traditional rock vocalists of a comparable mould to himself, the Queen singer could extract their most desirable qualities and infiltrate them with his own artistry. It meant that it wasn’t just […]
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They didn’t tease a moment. They unleashed a phenomenon. In a single, breathtaking image, time is not bridged—it is dissolved. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr stand not as survivors, but as sentinels. Their gazes are not fixed on the past, but on the horizon they still walk toward, the same one they first dreamed of […]
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Recording their 1995 album Made In Heaven would have undoubtedly been a jarring experience for Queen. Freddie Mercury had sadly passed away four years earlier, leaving them with one final record in Innuendo. They would be left without his charismatic presence thereafter and surely a hole too gaping to even think about filling. It was […]
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“We first played together in a small room on Gerrard Street, a basement room, which is now Chinatown,” John Paul Jones remembered Led Zeppelin’s first jam session very fondly. “There was just wall-to-wall amplifiers, and a space for the door – and that was it. Literally, it was everyone looking at each other – ‘What […]
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From the minute The Beatles broke up, Ringo Starr never had any problem being treated as the lovable Fab friend rather than a solo superstar. He may have had an astonishing run of hits considering how little he wrote for his old band, but even to this day, he seems happy to have lived that […]
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As the lead guitarist of Led Zeppelin, Page was the archetypal rock god. Nearly everything we associate with guitar heroes was at one time second nature to him, so it’s no surprise that Jack White was left speechless when he appeared alongside the rocker in It Might Get Loud. One of the best moments from […]
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There are songs written for the world. And then there are songs written because silence becomes unbearable. In the quiet aftermath of unimaginable loss, Robert Plant once turned to music not as an artist, but as a father. The loss of his young son, Karac Pendragon Plant, left a wound that never truly closed. At […]
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