Following The Yardbirds’ exodus, the emerging guitar hero Jimmy Page took it upon himself to rebuild a band worthy of rivalling The Who and The Rolling Stones. Page, who had been a session guitarist for several years, had a well-tuned eye as a talent scout and constructed one of the best outfits of all time, […]
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In the quiet hours before the world said goodbye, George Harrison reached for a small cassette recorder by his bedside. There was no studio clock ticking, no producer behind the glass, no audience waiting. Only breath, memory, and a melody fragile enough to be carried by a whisper. He pressed record and sang softly, leaving […]
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Not every song that The Beatles wrote was meant to be groundbreaking and serious. From the very beginning, the Fab Four had comedy and silliness baked into their DNA. That included yearly Christmas records for their fan club, which was usually little more than some improvised skits. But every once in a while, The Beatles […]
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The biggest goal for Paul McCartney seemed to be to go through life without too many regrets. Not everyone gets to be in one of the biggest bands in the world, and sometimes all it takes is the right kind of people to come together to make the best songs that anyone has ever heard. […]
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Many people have asked why Elvis Presley does not rest in the family mausoleum. After his funeral on August 18, 1977, his body was first placed in a crypt at Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis. At the time, it seemed like a quiet and respectful place for him to lie in peace, away from the […]
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The entire rock and roll scene was changed the minute that Robert Plant began singing for Led Zeppelin. Not everything he sang necessarily had to be the heaviest thing in the world, but when listening to him belt over every one of Jimmy Page’s guitar riffs, most vocalists knew they needed to step up their […]
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When talking about the greatest guitarists of all time, John Lennon doesn’t tend to make it all that high on most people’s lists. He may have been the rock-solid foundation for The Beatles, but his strong suit was always in songwriting first and foremost, and there was no way that he was going to play […]
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There are moments when music is not needed at all. Tonight was one of them. Inside the historic Royal Albert Hall in London, a place built for symphonies and thunderous applause, silence became the most powerful sound of the evening. Before 14,775 people who had gathered expecting a concert, Robert Plant and Maureen Wilson stood […]
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In 2005, inside a quiet room at Sound Emporium Studios in Nashville, something extraordinary happened — and then vanished without a trace. Robert Plant, Alison Krauss, and Willie Nelson were never meant to be in the same place that afternoon. There was no press, no label announcement, no schedule carved in stone. Yet somehow, three […]
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Fight among yourselves, but if you genuinely want to stand in front of another human being and try to pretend that The Beatles are, if not the greatest, then certainly the most influential band of all time, then you are simply wasting valuable air. They might not be to your taste, you might think them […]
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