After the untimely death of drummer John Bonham in 1980, at just 32 years old, the remaining members of Led Zeppelin – vocalist Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones – unanimously agreed to disband. “We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend,” they said in a […]
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Brushing with death was par for the course most nights famed shock rocker Alice Cooper took to the stage. Be it the electric chair, the guillotine, or the hangman’s gallows, Cooper’s been treating his fans to his very public, grisly demise for well over 50 years now. Legend has it that all eager bandmates are […]
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When working in a band as long as Keith Richards has, it’s easy to fall into a certain rhythm in the rehearsal room. Although it takes Richards the same time to write a song as it takes most of us to make a decent lunch, he has always been searching for that one extra element […]
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It’s hard to imagine rock music’s tapestry without four working-class Brummies joining forces at the 1960s’ tail-end, standing tall in its centre. Without lapsing into lofty hagiographies or stuffy pop lore, but it can’t be overstated how foundational Black Sabbath’s impact was during their classic era across the 1970s. Paving the way for heavy metal […]
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It would be easy to slap a big, fat rock on John Bonham’s influences. The fact is, rock as Led Zeppelin unleashed to the world didn’t exist before their eponymous debut in 1969. From the moment the collapsing Hindenburg airship exploded toward the end of the counterculture, classic rock was almost afforded its eternal template, […]
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