There’s practically nothing that Kurt Cobain and Axl Rose ever saw eye-to-eye on. Both of them certainly loved the rock and roll music that they played every single time they performed live, but each of them was coming from a completely different angle whenever they put their emotions down on record. Cobain was the one […]
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It’s hard for someone like George Martin to be all that biased when it comes to The Beatles. He was the one who plucked them out of Liverpool when they were still an amateur bar band, and while he may have steered them in the right direction, he was made privy to some of the […]
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There’s no way of thinking of The Beatles without going back to the partnership between John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Every single member of the band helped make the Fab Four what they were, but there was a certain synergy between McCartney’s optimism and Lennon’s biting wit that made the band’s songs work so well […]
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Jimmy Page wasn’t the kind of musician who did things for the sake of it, and when it came to writing and recording music, everything was intentional. Page worked as a session musician before he started Led Zeppelin, and that was a huge benefit for him in the long run. The first reason is because […]
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It’s both the most miraculous and saddest thing about The Beatles when you remember that, at the end of the day, they were just four friends. Meeting as mere teenagers back in Liverpool, the band was gathered through church fêtes and childhood reputations for the most part, as Paul McCartney met John Lennon at a […]
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Kurt Cobain never claimed to have the most pop-friendly record collection in the world. He had a lot of great pieces in his back catalogue that he would pull from when writing Nirvana’s greatest tunes, but he was far more accustomed to making mixtapes of bands that no one would have ever heard of. Not […]
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It can be easy for someone like Brian May to get a little bit jaded with the idea of being a rock star. Queen might be one of the most seminal rock and roll bands of all time, but there are probably a few times when May doesn’t feel like he’s up for talking about […]
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There needed to be something different going on in rock and roll to get the attention of John Lennon. He may have got his start making the most cookie-cutter rock and roll that everyone else starts with, but by the time that he and Paul McCartney started writing, there needed to be a bit more […]
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It’s impossible for anyone to think along the lines of The Beatles. As much as some people like the idea of trying to find that one group of guys that sound like they could take over the world, it’s not something that anyone could have ever dreamed up in a lab when talking about the […]
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No one can spend as much time in the limelight as Robert Plant has without picking up a few soulmates along the way. The music business isn’t exactly the business to make friends in, but there are always going to be those few people who will be able to stick by you no matter what, […]
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