John Lennon, the famed Liverpool icon, being more Scottish than he was English, isn’t exactly something that goes down very well south of the border. But there’s no denying the fact that for the Beatle, Scotland came to symbolise his place of solace and retreat, casting him away from the bedlam and mania that became […]
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Musicians have to go through their fair share of mistakes to become legendary. For all of the great players who seem to pick up on their craft in minutes, there will always be a few who spend years with their instrument before becoming one of the greatest in the business. While Jimmy Page had put […]
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When people make the pilgrimage to Liverpool to bask in the birthplace of The Beatles, they’re actually going to the wrong place. At 10 Matthew Street, in what is now called the Cavern Quarter, you’ll see a bustling crowd constantly surrounding that basement venue – The Cavern Club, to tourists and fans, is treated like […]
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Anyone who has ever jammed with Paul McCartney in the past few decades will probably tell you how intimidating it is to play with a legend. As much as Macca has been one of the most friendly presences in the world of rock and roll, he seems to almost exude music from every single pore […]
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The beginning of Led Zeppelin began in the mind of Jimmy Page, far before Robert Plant became involved. It’s hard to picture the band without that voice soaring above all of their tracks, but when listening to some of their original records, it’s easy to see the band that they were already becoming a few […]
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No one will ever be able to gauge the kind of impact that George Harrison made upon the world. Every detail of The Beatles’ career has pretty much been etched in stone at this point, and even if Harrison was known as the quiet one whenever they performed live, his music spoke volumes whenever he […]
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What is a genius? Is it somebody that you occasionally read about in the news who gets accepted into Oxford University aged 12 and has a digit above 200? Or, a songwriter who lights the world up with their music and enriches the souls of millions? Ultimately, the definition is in the eye of the […]
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In 1989, Freddie Mercury was confronting his HIV diagnosis head-on. He’d been showing symptoms since 1982 and had been diagnosed since 1987, but by the end of the decade, the singer was getting too ill to continue hiding it and had to come clean to his Queen bandmates. They say that the second you admit […]
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When The Beatles recorded Let It Be and hired someone other than George Martin to handle the final overdubs and production, many people wondered what had happened to sever a relationship that was previously thought to be inseparable. What had happened was more down to the turmoil brewing within the ranks of the band rather […]
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In a band as big as Queen, you wouldn’t expect Brian May to be one of the single most diplomatic people in the world. Anyone else with that kind of recognition could easily give in to their inflated ego, but May has always been more than happy to have written tunes like ‘We Will Rock […]
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