The Beatles were never meant to survive as a touring act for the rest of their lives. Even if they were happy to play to thousands of screaming fans every night, it probably wasn’t the best feeling in the world knowing that they could hardly hear themselves and that their audience was overpowering the music. […]
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While he may have only graced the planet for a tragically short amount of time, it’s evident that, despite having been gone for over 30 years that the impression Kurt Cobain left behind on rock music is still being felt to this day. Despite grunge having emerged from Seattle and its surrounding cities in the […]
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There are essentially two halves to Dusty Springfield’s career, standing either side of Dusty in Memphis. It was a gamble. Across the 1960s, Springfield had emerged as the leading female face of the British invasion by the decade’s end, but it took a while. She’d stormed the UK charts, reeling off big, string-laden pop numbers […]
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Director Morgan Neville has lifted the lid on his new Paul McCartney documentary, Man on the Run. The film had its premiere in London on February 18th, which included an in-person Q&A between McCartney and Neville. Those who walked the red carpet included Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, Sharon Osbourne, Gracie Abrams, and Paul Mescal, who […]
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Sean Ono Lennon has defended the reaction that Paul McCartney gave to the media following the death of his father, John Lennon, in 1980. Following the heartbreaking murder of Lennon outside the Dakota Building in New York, McCartney wasn’t given time to take stock of the terrible and tragic event before the world’s media were […]
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It’s hard to really gauge the kind of legacy that Kurt Cobain wanted to leave behind in Nirvana. He may have been proud to have touched a nerve whenever he worked on his records, but no one would have looked at someone that openly resented how his own records sounded and say that he was […]
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Inspiration can come from anywhere, but it’s much more likely to hit when things are looking up, such that the world feels like it might turn forever, and it’s something George Harrison knew better than anyone else. Another truism about inspiration is that it can, eventually, dry up. Not always, of course, for there are […]
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Artistic inspiration often comes from the most unlikely surroundings, and although it is easy to envision every one of Led Zeppelin’s hard rock riffs and expansive long-playing masterpieces being dragged from the endearingly dirty gutters of rock and roll, where all guitar-based abrasion surely resides, Jimmy Page and the gang often took their core inspiration […]
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In the days following the November 17th, 1980, release of his long-awaited comeback album, Double Fantasy, most of the interviews John Lennon conducted focused on the same themes as the songs on the record, particularly the notion of “starting over“. In a Los Angeles Times piece that autumn, in which Lennon was eerily described as […]
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Whenever you’re doubting just how attainable a glittering career in rock and roll really is, it’s worth bearing in mind that everybody has to start somewhere. Even The Beatles, whose place at the top of music history is borderline unbeatable and the reputation of the stardom almost contradicts the idea of DIY musicianship, they too […]
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