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“Bores the pants off me”: The one artist John Paul Jones thought made terrible music

Rock and roll was never intended to be tied to one particular style. Although many people continue to swear by the model that Chuck Berry and Little Richard set for everyone, the biggest names of the genre were the ones that helped people branch out into different areas no one had heard before, whether that […]

“Three Voices, One Spirit: The Gospel Heart of Queen’s Final Chapter”

17 June 1996 – Queen released their 45th UK single, ‘Let Me Live’ with Bicycle Race’ and ‘Fat Bottomed Girls (1994 EMI Remaster)’ ‘Let Me Live’ is the fourth single (UK) released from Queen’s fifteenth album, ‘Made In Heaven.’ This beautiful, welcome return to gospel started life in 1976 as an untitled impromptu jam with […]

“Three Voices, One Spirit: The Gospel Heart of Queen’s Final Chapter”

“Candles, Silence, and Slide Guitar: The Studio Secrets of George Harrison”

George Harrison was never one to follow the crowd, and that uniqueness extended into his recording sessions. As a longtime admirer of George’s artistry, I find his studio habits both quirky and telling of his deeply spiritual and perfectionist nature. For starters, George was known to insist on recording his guitar parts in complete isolation […]

“Live Aid and Beyond: How Freddie Mercury Redefined world Best Redefined Performance”

There’s no right way to prepare to play to millions of people. Most performers spend years cutting their teeth before finding their calling playing to the back of a stadium, but being able to engage with a crowd of that size is something that you’re either born with or you have to wait years to […]

“George Harrison: The Quiet Beatle Whose Guitar Spoke to God”

It almost goes without saying that any Beatle could have earned themselves a spot on this list. The Fab Four practically acted like a single entity when they were still touring, but when they branched out into four musical thinkers in the back half of their career, people barely realised that they had a pure […]

“How do you do that”: How John Lennon failed to accept Paul McCartney’s relationship with son, Julian

“Hey Jude, don’t make it bad, Take a sad song and make it better”: Paul McCartney wrote those words in 1968, and quickly, they became the opening lines to one of the world’s most well-known anthems. For decades since, crowds have chanted it back at him, adopting the song of hope into the world’s songbook […]

The guitarist who played like it was his “last day on Earth”, according to Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl might have made his first mark on the music industry as a rebellious young upstart at the heart of the grunge revolution, but his tastes were always a little more expansive than many of his punk peers. Namely, the self-professed rock aficionado has always maintained a deep-rooted appreciation for the landscape of classic […]

Who is The Beatles song ‘Savoy Truffle’ aimed at?

After the summer of love’s lysergic pop psychedelia began to wear off, and the emerging roots rock trends sought to pull music toward a more rustic and foundational plane long before acid’s arrival on the charts, so too did The Beatles seek to shake off their kaleidoscopic regiment uniforms on 1967’s Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts […]

Which one a song Led Zeppelin never wanted to released Says “Everybody laughed” ?

There was arguably no one bigger than Led Zeppelin in 1975. The undeniable presence and charisma of Robert Plant, coupled with the mesmeric massaging of guitar strings by Jimmy Page, had the English band on top of the universe. Although they had a distinctly different sound from The Beatles, Led Zeppelin took the baton from […]