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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There’s no sense in trying to compete with anything that Paul McCartney did when he was with The Beatles. As much as people have tried to chase after the same kind of songs that the Fab Four made in their prime, the reason why they will never reach the same heights they did is that […]
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The Guitarist Brian May Said Was Better Than Jimi Hendrix There is a near-universal cultural agreement that Jimi Hendrix stands as the greatest guitarist in history—a status cemented not only by his revolutionary sound but also by the tragic fact that he died at just 27, leaving behind only three studio albums. Hendrix’s legacy is […]
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Although Freddie Mercury was a frontman, he appreciated showmen of all shapes and sizes across the entertainment industry. While they may not have been traditional rock vocalists of a comparable mould to himself, the Queen singer could extract their most desirable qualities and infiltrate them with his own artistry. It meant that it wasn’t just […]
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It’s impossible to imagine that two guitarists like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page have the same origin story in many respects. Both of them got started in the blues, and while each of them went in wildly different directions after they were established on their own, their time in The Yardbirds was the perfect breeding […]
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