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Who played bass in the Traveling Wilburys?

There was never any type of ego when the Traveling Wilburys first got together. Any one of them could have pulled their seniority card amongst their bandmates and considered themselves living legends, but the whole reason George Harrison assembled the supergroup in the first place was because he wanted to surround himself with people who […]

What derailed Julian Lennon’s career after his successful 1984 debut?

The term “nepo baby” thankfully didn’t exist when John Lennon’s eldest son, Julian, began his recording career over 40 years ago. If you weren’t around back then, it’s worth bearing in mind that Julian Lennon’s debut album, 1984’s Valotte, was released less than four years after his father’s murder, and, as such, interest was extremely […]

“Manufactured”: Why disregarding Led Zeppelin as imitators is redundan according to Kurt Cobain

Passion can be our undoing, sometimes. Is there anything more eye-roll worthy than when someone calls your favourite artist overrated? Or worse, unoriginal? “Popularity doesn’t mean they’re good,” someone might say, priming the stage for countless reasons about why that may or may not be the case. It’s everywhere: there’s probably someone within a 50-foot […]

“Saviour of the Universe”: how the nerdiness of Queen defined the band

I can imagine that, for some, the Queen jukebox musical ‘We Will Rock You’ was an unforgivable sellout move. The moment when the band became the brand, peddling shlocky sci-fi, panto-level jokes and characters called things like Scaramouche, Galileo Figaro and the Killer Queen. I think it’s fair to say that the people scandalised by […]

An iconic artist of Grunge Rock Kurt Cobain and the final song he played onstage

An iconic artist of Grunge Rock Kurt Cobain and the final song he played onstage ‘Heart Shaped Box’ – Kurt Cobain For as harsh as Nirvana’s In Utero tour got, no one could have assumed where Kurt Cobain was heading. Sure, many artists have complained about the strain that the touring life puts on them, […]