Despite the world’s concert promoters likely fighting over each other to book the rock and roll icon, Elvis Presley only ever played shows in North America throughout his entire life. He barely left the States. Among the over 1,600 performances across at least 240 cities, only five shows were ever held in Canada, Presley touring […]
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There are plenty of songs that were hits back in their day that absolutely wouldn’t fly in the modern world due to how attitudes have changed, and while you might think of The Beatles as having been squeaky clean in this respect, they certainly did test the limit of acceptability. ‘Run For Your Life’ is […]
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There was a good chance that The Beatles would have still been performing had Paul McCartney had anything to say about it. Even though it was impractical for any of them to play and be heard over the screaming crowds that came to see them, McCartney has never stopped since the band broke up, always […]
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John and Yoko. Lennon and Ono. You don’t even have to give their full names to recognise one of the greatest power couples in all of music history. The Beatle and his artistic muse became so enraptured in each other’s orbit, and so famously in the glare of the public eye, that they almost couldn’t […]
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Tempers were often fraught during the process of The Beatles recording their eleventh studio album, Abbey Road, and one track, in particular, brought guitarist George Harrison to the end of his tether. It was a difficult time for the band, and through no fault of their own, they were left to record a chunk of […]
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After over 50 years, it feels like we’re still just scratching the surface of what Led Zeppelin did throughout the 1970s. There are certain songs that are more straightforward than others, but what kind of divine musical god gave these four musicians the power to write something as epic as ‘Kashmir’ or turn in as […]
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On paper, there’s arguably never been a finer collaboration than when John Lennon and David Bowie combined their talents on ‘Fame’. Of course, both men had enjoyed successfully working with other artists across their careers, but there was something magnificent about this quiet collaboration, largely because of the impressive stature of the two stars in […]
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Something about Freddie Mercury has always felt completely singular. A uniquely positoned vocalis, Mercury commanded the stage with the same powerhouse audacity as a pantomime lead. Brutish and ballsy, he would strut the boards demanding the attention of every set of eyeballs in the room, and he could do so because of his richly layered […]
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Jack White was always frustrated with the stigma that was attached to Detroit, as he felt it made people view his music in a way that undermined the actual sound of it. His issue was with the idea of authenticity and how music is left to one side if an artist doesn’t come across as […]
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Few artists in history have had as much praise heaped upon them as Jimmy Page. The curly-haired Led Zeppelin occultist has been lauded by the likes of Ritchie Blackmore, who crowned him “way ahead of most guitar players”, and he very rarely lauds anyone, Alex Lifeson, who said he loved “everything he represented”, and even […]
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