Bob Dylan’s influence on modern music is undeniable. In fact, he’s pretty much the Rosetta Stone of modern art. All great movements have a stirring beginning. The golden age of Russian literature abided by the apocryphal phrase of “we all came out from under Gogol’s Overcoat”. When it comes to modern alternative music, it’s not […]
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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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When The Beatles went to America, they were already a fairly big deal, but their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show is what really made them stand out as the next big thing. A British band had never broken America in the way that The Beatles managed to, and it all kicked off following an […]
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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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Nothing that Bob Dylan ever wrote has been known for being the simplest thing in the world. When he went electric for the first time, Dylan wanted to challenge the perception of what rock and roll lyricism could be, and after spending his time as a folk artist, his verbiage was unlike anything that you […]
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There are some moments that emerge in the mire of culture that feel like a fever dream. George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Neil Young, and Bruce Springsteen all coming together to perform ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ might not be the most maddening of those moments, but, as a famed football manager once quipped, […]
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“You know, they say in this life, you have to perfect one human relationship in order to really love God. You practice loving God by loving another human, and by giving unconditional love,” Olivia Harrison once said, a belief that her husband, George Harrison, lived by too, and really, if there was one relationship in […]
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It wasn’t obvious to the music press that, of all The Beatles, George Harrison would be the one to strike up a solid friendship with the original folksmith, Bob Dylan. Reportedly, it was John Lennon that Dylan was more eager to meet. During the peaks of Beatlemania, Lennon’s supposed intellectual edge in the group piqued […]
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It goes without saying that all of The Beatles had a certain sense of artistic proclivity, but John Lennon had a greater notion for the whimsy, the windswept, and the magic than most. The cynics out there might attribute that to a level of drugs he was taking at the height of his career in […]
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