The Strange Days Of Bob Dylan
Nobel-Prize-winning Bob Dylan is a world-class weirdo, in a good way. He was born different, that’s for sure, but living for so long...
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The Day The BBC Banned The Beatles...Again
“I read the news today, oh boy” — The Beatles The Beatles song ‘A Day In The Life’, taken from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, was...
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George Harrison: The Part-Time Musician And Full-Time Gardener
“George wanted most of all to be remembered as a gardener, one who ‘wrote one or two good tunes.'” - Olivia Harrison George never...
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A Rolling Stones Summer In Villa Nellcôte
Commissioned in 1854 by a businessman named Eugene Thomas, in 1971 Villa Nellcôte, in Villefranche-sur-Mer on the Côte D'Azur was the...
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The World’s First Pocket Record Player: The 1924 Mikiphone
The Mikiphone pocket phonograph was designed by Hungarian brothers Miklós and Étienne Vadász, and mass produced under licence by Masison...
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The African Choir’s Tour of Britain
Between 1891 and 1893, 14 young men and women, and two children, from South Africa, then under British rule, toured the United Kingdom as...
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Remembering The Brief, Prolific Career & Death Of Guitar Master Randy Rhoads
On March 19th, 1982, a joyride went horribly wrong, and the music world lost one of the most explosive players to ever pick up a guitar,...
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The Grim World Of 'The Mamas And The Papas' Singer, John Phillips
John Phillips is best remembered as the catalyst behind one of the most memorable bands of the 1960s, The Mamas and The Papas. It was...
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Wallace Hartley's Violin; The Violin That Serenaded the Doomed Titanic Voyagers
As passengers frantically piled into the lifeboats or gazed down at their doom in the icy waters, the Titanic band continued to play on...
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Outrageously Good Tales About Little Richard
Being gay and black in the deep south during the 1950s may sound like a recipe for disaster, but not so much for Little Richard....
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David Bowie & Tina Turner: Did They Or Didn't They?...
Few would have predicted Tina Turner’s triumphant comeback in 1984, when Private Dancer put her on top of the album charts – least of...
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'Colonel' Tom Parker, A Man Of Mystery, Or Maybe Just A Murdering Chancer.
To say The Colonel was a controversial figure would be something of an understatement. From his own mysterious background to his...
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Take A Tour On Board Led Zeppelin's Boeing 720, Otherwise Known As 'Starship'
When Led Zeppelin toured North America for their 1973 and 1975 concert tours they chartered (did not buy or own) “The Starship.” “The...
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When Frank Sinatra Jr Was Kidnapped And Held For Ransom
In 1963, just two weeks after President John F Kennedy was shot, another American icon would find himself in the middle of a tragedy —...
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Murder At The Rolling Stones' Altamont Speedway Free Concert
"The violence just in front of the stage was incredible," Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones recalls of The Altamont Speedway free...
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The Beautiful Keaton Music Typewriter
The Keaton Music Typewriter is a thing of beauty, first patented in 1936, it was designed and produced to hammer out musical notations,...
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When Bob Marley Survived Getting Shot During A Home Invasion
Bob Marley is a worldwide musical icon, but it’s difficult to imagine from his sunny reggae anthems why he was once targeted in an...
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How Marvin Gaye Helped Stevie Wonder Find His Voice
Stevie Wonder discovered a love of music at an incredibly early age. By the time he was 12 years old, Wonder was a full-fledged R&B...
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Bass Drum Art From The 1920s And 1930s
The folks over at Polarity Records have put together a really in-depth and extensive article about the technicality of drum kits back in...
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The Sex Pistols First Gig (Even Before The Manchester Gig Everyone Claims To Have Attended)
On Nov. 6, 1975, a small group of music lovers filed into the Common Room of Saint Martins School of Art. Most were there to see...
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When Frank Sinatra Died There Was Drama, Lots Of Drama. Would We Have Expected Anything Less?
In May 1998, Frank Sinatra asked his daughter Tina how far away the new millennium was. According to the biography Sinatra: The Life,...
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The Stranger Than Fiction Truth About Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis’s life has been marked by loss, addictions, scandal, and some of the craziest stories in rock n’ roll history. One thing...
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Jimi Hendrix In London - The Town That Made Him Famous
There are few artists from any country, in any era, who have managed to encapsulate the mood of a nation like Jimi Hendrix in 1960s...
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"My Best Live Performance" - When B.B King Played Sing Sing Prison
“I was told that some of you dudes don’t know anything about blues,” he said from the stage before beginning what he would go on to call...
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