A band like Led Zeppelin is such an alchemic sum of its parts; it’s impossible to imagine their continuing after the loss of drummer John Bonham. Some of their peers decided to soldier on under similar circumstances, to varying success. AC/DC pulled off an effortless frontman swap between Highway to Hell and Back in Black, […]
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I once interviewed a band who defiantly told me, “It’s hard not to sound like The Beatles, because they invented everything!” It was a fair remark to make when I asked about the Beatles-inspired piano reprise in one of their songs. It was nothing more than a progression of piano chords, designed to sound like […]
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The room does not feel like a room at all. It feels suspended, as if the walls have learned to listen. Light gathers where sound should end, and for a long moment nothing moves. Then it begins — a guitar weeping softly, not for effect, but with the quiet familiarity of something that remembers hands […]
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George Harrison never usually had the same kind of time in The Beatles as John Lennon or Paul McCartney had. He certainly had the talent to continue making incredible material, but it would be a challenge for him to get a word in amongst his fellow bandmates whenever he brought one of his tunes to […]
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Led Zeppelin may well be one of the biggest rock acts to have ever graced the earth, but a large amount of their popularity is down to their incredible musicianship and the soaring vocals of Robert Plant. It goes without saying that Jimmy Page was also an exceptional guitarist, and the rhythm sections of John […]
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The impact of The Beatles’ music on popular culture is something that really needs to be studied to be understood. No one quite knew what they were listening to when the Fab Four first started making their pop masterpieces, and there are subtle hints of what they did scattered throughout every generation that came afterwards. […]
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Home / The Beatles / RISK TURNED INTO REVOLUTION THAT NIGHT — How a Quiet Insult Pushed The Beatles to Rewrite the Rules of Music London, 1965, was thick with confidence. The city hummed with new sounds, new faces, new certainty about who mattered and why. Inside a crowded studio party, laughter bounced off the […]
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Elvis Presley enticed and inspired Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant from the first time he set eyes on him. The King had an illuminating effect on his childhood. Presley’s music was an invitation into a world disparate from the gloomy West Midlands surroundings of his working-class youth and continues to resonate with the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ […]
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In the second half of 1962, The Beatles became one of the first British bands to release a debut single they had written themselves from scratch. The song ‘Love Me Do’ was one of John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s earliest joint songwriting efforts, worked out together by the two of them from a song idea […]
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Music/ News / In 2026, the world will meet Elvis Presley again — not as a memory, not as a legend, but as a living presence. EPiC is neither imitation nor homage. It is Elvis himself, painstakingly restored from rare and long-lost concert footage. Every step across the stage, every fleeting look, every note sung […]
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