Ringo Starr has announced a new album, titled Long Long Road, which is set for an April 24th release. The new project marks his second collaboration with T Bone Burnett, following last year’s country album, Look Up, which earned him his first Top 10 on Billboard’s all-genre Top Album Sales chart. Nodding towards the creative […]
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It’s hard to quantify just what an impressive musician Jimmy Page is. He has not only been a part of some of the greatest rock music ever made, but his position as one of the fundamental pillars fo guitar music is unshakable. Before The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page was a session musician who […]
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The rule for The Beatles was simple: if you wrote the song, you got to sing the song on the record. It was a simple premise that ensured no feelings were hurt when either John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and, sometimes, Ringo Starr walked into Abbey Road studios with a brand new tune. It […]
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The question of why The Beatles stopped touring is a frequent one in the annals of rock ‘n’ roll history, but perhaps the more pertinent question is how they managed to tour for so long. They were simply so big that they outstripped the infrastructure of the times, making touring, in every which way, utterly […]
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There isn’t a better student of rock and roll than Bruce Springsteen still working today. There are many musicians who have tried to match what their favourite artists have done before them, but a lot of what Springsteen does involves him trying to make the kind of songs that his idols would have been proud […]
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When The Beatles went to America, they were already a fairly big deal, but their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show is what really made them stand out as the next big thing. A British band had never broken America in the way that The Beatles managed to, and it all kicked off following an […]
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Every musician strives to satisfy their fans, even though it can sometimes be challenging to discern their desires. Nonetheless, the primary focus remains on creating the best music possible, hoping it resonates with someone. However, rock and roll artists like Nirvana have been known to craft songs intended to challenge or provoke their audience rather […]
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Every musician strives to satisfy their fans, even though it can sometimes be challenging to discern their desires. Nonetheless, the primary focus remains on creating the best music possible, hoping it resonates with someone. However, rock and roll artists like Nirvana have been known to craft songs intended to challenge or provoke their audience rather […]
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When The Beatles released Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967, it didn’t really sound like any music they’d made up to that point, or like anything that anybody had ever made until then. It wasn’t even just the sounds that the band were making, but also in the way they were making those […]
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When talking about the grunge movement, it gets more than a little bit complicated talking about the relationship between Nirvana and Pearl Jam. They were both among the greatest rock and roll bands of their time, but whenever Cobain talked about them in interviews, you would have sworn that he was one of their biggest […]
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