The main reason I’m starting to believe more and more that Spotify Wrapped is a fix is that every year, without fail, it tries to tell me that ‘Here Comes the Sun’ by The Beatles is one of my top tracks. Listen, this is not a suggestion of slandering the Fabs, nor an attempt to […]
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No one was ever going to come to a Black Sabbath record expecting a pick-me-up throughout every song. This was the music that was made to scare the living daylights out of anyone, and judging by how much they brought up the sinister side of life, you had to be careful how often you played […]
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One of the defining elements of most great Beatles songs comes with the harmonies. Although there was the odd collection of songs where one member of the Fab Four sang by himself, the band’s core sound came from hearing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison break out into vocal harmony together. While the band […]
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At this point, Paul McCartney has earned the right to do whatever the hell he wants when he walks into the studio. His legacy as one of the finest songwriters in the world is already secure, and even if not every song is a winner in his later years, it’s much more interesting to see […]
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From the moment they met at St Peter’s Church Hall fete in Liverpool in 1957, John Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a bond in music that would revolutionise popular culture over the 1960s as The Beatles took hold of the world. The pair had an almost telepathic understanding of each other, allowing them to bounce […]
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No member of The Rolling Stones signed up for being a rock and roll star, thinking that they needed to be the next Bob Dylan or anything. They were trying to make the best blues covers they could in the beginning, but the more that people gravitated towards songs like ‘Satisfaction’, it made a lot […]
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It’s impossible to imagine that two guitarists like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page have the same origin story in many respects. Both of them got started in the blues, and while each of them went in wildly different directions after they were established on their own, their time in The Yardbirds was the perfect breeding […]
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There’s hardly any popular artist on this Earth that hasn’t taken at least a little bit of inspiration from The Beatles. Even if someone wanted nothing to do with the mop tops or psychedelic outfits back in the day, there are normally artists from two walks of life in the modern age: those who followed […]
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To ignore Led Zeppelin’s debut album as one of the pivotal moments in rock history would be to forget a large chunk of modern music as we know it today. The blues-heavy sound laid the foundations for heavy metal and countless other genres and it shook the music scene to its core. While The Beatles […]
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In April 1970, The Beatles finally split up, leaving the music world to mourn the divorce of rock music’s most influential group. This news came as a shock for some fans, but for many, including the members and their close friends and family, it was an inevitability. In retrospect, we know tensions were reaching a […]
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