Every songwriter wants to write something that will last longer than they do. Even though music may come and go across generations, the power of a song can be strong enough to transcend any of the trends it fell prey to, often becoming classics without really trying. Although John Lennon already had a firm library […]
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For all of the acclaim that The Beatles received throughout their career, George Harrison always seemed to be above it all. As much as he loved the idea of being one of the best guitarists of his generation, there was more to life than money and acclaim every single time that the Fab Four got […]
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Who knows where inspiration comes from? It’s a mystery that people have been trying to figure out since the dawn of time. The act of ideas hitting from nowhere is an amazing phenomenon. Within a split second, a lightning strike of genius hits an artist, and the rest is history. Freddie Mercury knew that feeling […]
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The rock world had erupted and solidified like an angry volcano during the 1950s and ’60s. It had welcomed a brand new ream of artists who all seemed intent on making rebellion the forefront of their message. Many bands had come and gone, and the new decade of the 1970s seemed to offer up yet […]
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Given the pioneering nature of their work, the fandom and hysteria that came with ‘Beatlemania’ and the resounding commercial and financial success that propelled their fame, The Beatles continue to dominate music headlines even to this day. It seems increasingly likely that they always will. If you couple the whirlwind that they whipped up in […]
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Kurt Cobain was never coy about his influences. In fact, the Nirvana frontman would often ascribe his finest moments to the inspirational heroes of music’s underground and pop heights. Their ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ breakthrough was downplayed as merely “ripping off” Pixies’ quiet-loud verse-chorus songcraft, ‘About a Girl’ was said to have been penned after […]
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The 20th century was when classic rock was invented, when it evolved, and when it was perfected. As a result, there are a lot of great albums within the genre from this time period. Five seems like a silly number, reading it now, for the amount that the genre evolved throughout the 20th century is […]
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In not much more than a decade, The Beatles managed to write around 230 songs, depending on who you ask. That’s roughly 21 a year. Considering that they now have 21 number-one singles to their name, you wouldn’t be far wrong if you said a tenth of their work was chart-topping. Needless to say, that’s […]
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During his momentous rise to musical stardom, Elvis Presley had the kind of Midas touch befitting of a man dubbed ‘The King’, amassing a then-unprecedented plethora of chart-topping hits and transforming countless otherwise obscure songs into essential parts of the rock and roll canon. There was a time, however, during which that power started to […]
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When a band ceases activity prematurely, regardless of the reason why, if there’s enough of a fanbase around them, they’ll begin to create their own mythologies of what could have been had they been able to continue. One of the greatest examples of this is Nirvana, who were forced to separate after the loss of […]
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