What’s the moment you regret most in your life? For the people of Dingwall, it was the time they decided not to go and see The Beatles. Without wanting to insult any natives, the historic Highland market town isn’t exactly famed for much: its Viking roots, a museum, and Ross County FC, at best. It’s […]
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Out of all the members of The Beatles, John Lennon could be more than a little bit of a music snob behind the scenes. As much as he loved the idea of playing any kind of music that he wanted to when he first started, there were certain bridges that he didn’t really want to […]
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With the count of Dave Grohl’s drumsticks and the clash of mangled guitars and bass from Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic, Nirvana‘s In Utero opens with ‘Serve The Servants’. Cobain delivers the unforgettable line in a hoarse gravel of a voice: “Teenage angst has paid off well; now I’m bored and old.” The line reverberates […]
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For as gigantic as Led Zeppelin became, it’s insane to think that Jimmy Page was being looked at as crazy when he first put the band together. This was bound to be the rock and roll group that would put everyone else to shame, and yet when he asked if Keith Moon would join him, […]
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It can’t be overstated how life-changing the work of sitarist Ravi Shankar was to a young George Harrison. Once exposed to Shankar’s signature raga scales, an entire creative and personal path was unveiled by the classical Indian musician, triggering a years-long fascination with the sitar to the point of heading straight to New Delhi in […]
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John Lennon was a much different person by the time he reached the late 1960s. The rise of Beatlemania was bound to do a number on every member of the Fab Four, but when Lennon started to be treated like some sort of prophet of music, he was the first to take down all the […]
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By the time the 1980s ended, Robert Plant couldn’t have been farther away from Led Zeppelin if he had tried. He was proud of the work he had made with his bandmates throughout the 1970s, but when John Bonham passed away, Plant didn’t want to live his life through that one persona until the end […]
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The Beatles were responsible for a number of major studio innovations in the 1960s. Whether it was pioneering the use of backward guitar on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’ or splicing together two different takes of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ to create one seamless final product, The Beatles were experimenting on levels that were nearly unheard of at […]
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There’s a good chance that George Harrison could have released anything after The Beatles, and it would have still sold. Even if everyone was heartbroken about the band breaking up, their names were practically a license to print money, and it helped when All Things Must Pass came out sounding like one of the greatest […]
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While times have changed significantly over the last 70 years, one could certainly argue that the British music scene is in more dire need of being shaken up than it ever has been during that period. This is no criticism of the quality of music being released by British acts, which is as promising as […]
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