Stella McCartney has admitted that the abuse her late mother, Linda McCartney, suffered in Wings “breaks my heart”. Stella made the comments in the new documentary Man on the Run, which explores how Paul McCartney, with the help of Linda and Wings, built himself back up during the 1970s following the collapse of The Beatles. […]
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There are seasoned songwriters who have been writing for decades who are still trying to find out what made Paul McCartney so special. The Beatles had the kind of internal chemistry that no one could have replicated, but if you broke down the talents of every individual member, Macca was one of the best melodists […]
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In an ironic twist of fate, the final single that John Lennon released in his lifetime before his tragic murder in 1980 would be ‘(Just Like) Starting Over’, a rockabilly send-up with a message of renewal and revitalisation. Lennon was coming into a new decade and had a new lease on life following a two-month […]
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It turns out that the small Weybridge town in the UK’s Surrey area possibly lent an indirect hand in shaping one of The Beatles’ most creative cuts on more than one occasion. By 1967, The Beatles were well into their psychedelic phase, eagerly trying to capture the mind-expanding experiences had on LSD to record as […]
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It’s not hard to imagine a small, conservative, Midwestern American town where rock ‘n’ roll is illegal, a la the movie Footloose, but how about a big city in the north of England imposing an ordinance to limit how loud a rock band could be? In 1973! It might sound like a corny script idea […]
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It might seem like the world spent most of its time allowing rock stars to do whatever they so chose. But that’s not quite true. In the glory days of rock excess, Led Zeppelin could never catch a break with critics. Although the fans clamoured for what the next instalment from the band was going […]
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The evening did not carry the restless energy of a typical concert. It unfolded slowly, almost reverently, as though the room itself understood the weight of what was about to happen. Julian Lennon, Sean Lennon, Dhani Harrison, Zak Starkey, and James McCartney stepped forward together, not as replacements for giants, but as custodians of something […]
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At the height of the 1980s hair metal movement, Kurt Cobain seemed like the last person to dethrone the poodle-haired legends. This was the kind of guy that seemed way too cool for school whenever he even tried to enjoy bands like Van Halen, and yet as soon as he arrived on MTV, decked out […]
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By the end of the 1970s, Led Zeppelin were in a state of discombobulation. Having survived the onslaught of punk and disco, the mighty Zeppelin emerged intact as rock and roll’s truest survivors. Nothing could bring them down: not changing tastes, not harsh critical reviews, and not even car accidents or family tragedies. The only […]
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John Lennon was never the kind to scare easily. If anything, during The Beatles’ first major tours, there was a good chance that most people knew to stay away from Lennon whenever he got angry, especially when he started to go wild during the band’s salad days playing in Hamburg. But while Lennon had more […]
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