Being Paul McCartney’s younger brother must be like joining the Old El Paso product development team the week after they unveiled the Smoky BBQ fajita kit. How on earth do you follow that? Imagine gathering around that Christmas Day dining table and hearing, “Well, it’s been a good year for Paul; it looks like he […]
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Many aspects make Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ their definitive song. A distillation of their colourful theatrics, oscillating dynamics, and Freddie Mercury’s power as a songwriter and performer, it brought together the band’s best elements in one manic whirlwind. Decades on from its release, the song remains a strange mythical beast. Unlike most other chart-topping rock songs, […]
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Greatness can take time. In our world of instant gratification, where ‘instant’ seems to be showing ever faster, somehow in the age of social media and swift online hits, that fact can be tough to handle. But some of the greatest and most enduring careers, or some of music’s most timeless tracks ever penned, have […]
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Two things can be true at once. It is true and accurate to say that on July 13th, 1985, Live Aid made history with a TV audience of over 1.9billion people tuning into the two-venue charity concert. It is also true and accurate to say that the show was a complete and utter organisational mess, […]
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The final album released by The Beatles wasn’t supposed to go out in the form it eventually did. They closed their catalogue with an accident. It was almost entirely recorded before the one that preceded its release, Abbey Road, as an attempt to get the band back to where they once belonged, in the mood […]
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It was always hard to really get a gauge on what Kurt Cobain wanted out of life as a musician. As much as people loved the idea of him playing ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ until the end of time with Nirvana, there was a piece of him that seemed to be above the idea of […]
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As long as the world keeps turning, there’s a good chance that Brian May will never find another singer like Freddie Mercury. Even though many people have taken countless cues from what the Queen frontman could do during his lifetime, there’s always a certain magic to seeing footage of all four of them onstage that […]
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The Beatles are a band whose name alone stirs emotion. The Fab Four had an enormous impact on the world, and the effects of that influence are still felt today. “My son says to me, ‘Dad, I like The Beatles, but why do you go so crazy?” Said Ozzy Osbourne when discussing the band, “The […]
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John Lennon, the famed Liverpool icon, being more Scottish than he was English, isn’t exactly something that goes down very well south of the border. But there’s no denying the fact that for the Beatle, Scotland came to symbolise his place of solace and retreat, casting him away from the bedlam and mania that became […]
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Musicians have to go through their fair share of mistakes to become legendary. For all of the great players who seem to pick up on their craft in minutes, there will always be a few who spend years with their instrument before becoming one of the greatest in the business. While Jimmy Page had put […]
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