‘She’s A Rainbow’: The Story Behind The Rolling Stones’ ClassicThe Rolling Stones’ “She’s a Rainbow” is regarded nowadays as a psychedelic classic. But the group’s collective mood in 1967 can be summe...
Possessed: Voodoo’s Origins and Influence from the Blues to BritneyVodou (the proper Kreyol/Creole spelling of Voodoo) is a neo-African religion that evolved in the New World from the 6000-year-old West A...
Nirvana: Unplugged. What Could've Been?The final months of Kurt Cobain's life were chaotic to say the least, but in the midst of it all, the singer and his band Nirvana deliver...
The Fatal Relationship Between Marvin Gaye and his Disturbed FatherMarvin Gaye’s prolific career spanned over 25 years, from his beginnings in Motown to his evolution to socially-conscious funk, his music...
What happened at AC/DC's first British gigOn April 23, 1976, AC/DC played live in the UK for the first time. Classic Rock's Malcolm Dome was there - The Red Cow was an unpretentio...
That time when David Bowie and Iggy Pop were caught in a marijuana drug bustWhen looking through famous mugshots, the chances are you’ll have stumbled across David Bowie’s effortlessly stylish picture. It’s enough...
That Bonkers Thelonious Monk CoverYou may have wondered about the circumstances of the cover photograph for Thelonious Monk’s 1968 album Underground. As you might imagine,...
On This Day In 1980 We Lost BonOn 19th Feb 1980, Bon Scott, singer of AC/DC, was pronounced dead on arrival at a London hospital after a heavy night’s drinking. Scott w...
Woody Guthrie’s Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions From 1943On January 1, 1943, the American folk music legend Woody Guthrie jotted in his journal a list of 33 “New Years Rulin's." Nowadays, we'd c...
Why It Mattered: The Rolling Stones’ ‘Let It Bleed’The album opens with a whisper. Haunting vocals conflate the imagination and inject a certain sense of desperation for what will happen n...
Otis Redding And His Revolution Fifty-two years ago, on December 10, 1967, a private plane carrying Otis Redding and the members of his touring band stalled on its final...
Jimi Hendrix Plays “Sgt. Pepper” for The Beatles, Just Three Days After It's ReleaseThere are many ways to celebrate a new album from a band you admire. You can have a listening party alone. You can have a listening party...
Debbie Harry Painted by H.R. GigerIn the spring of 1980, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie met H.R. Giger at a party at the Hansen Gallery in New York City, which wa...
Marc Bolan and Born to Boogie: Directed by Ringo Starr (feat: Elton John)In early 1972, Britain lay aglitter under the spell of Marc Bolan, the corkscrew-haired prince of all the pretty things. With his band, ...
Watch Animated Visualisations of the Bass Lines for Motown ClassicsJames Jamerson is the Schoenberg of getting from the I chord to the IV chord. He’s algorithmically generating a new pattern every phrase…...
Here’s How Much Each Artist Earned From Playing WoodstockWoodstock is widely regarded as one of the most important events in music history. The festival, which took place in August 1969, drew ab...
Why ALL music is GOOD music.Whilst sitting here eating my porridge and my eldest son is harassing me to play something I believe to be awful on Spotify, it dawns on ...
Hear Freddie Mercury’s Vocals Soar in the Isolated Vocal Track for “Somebody to Love”For some time now, certain fans of Queen have sought the elusive answer to the question “what made Freddie Mercury such an incredible sin...
How John Peel Created Our Musical WorldIt was 27 July 2012, the night of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. The Queen got into a helicopter. Men with top hats walked on...
When Dylan Met The BeatlesOn Friday 28 August 1964, in a room in the Delmonico hotel at Park Avenue and 59th in New York City – at a rendezvous brokered with a kee...
How Phil Lynott Became Rock's Most Notorious Hellraiser Phil Lynott was recording his second solo album in a studio in Soho and, as usual, the control room was overflowing with hangers-on. Lyn...
Led Zeppelin In India: The True Story Behind The Secret Bombay SessionsIn October 1972, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page travelled to Bombay to jam with Indian musicians. This is what happened… Lac...
Deconstructing Led Zeppelin’s ‘Ramble On’ Track by Track: Guitars, Bass, Drums & VocalsI'm seriously addicted to deconstructing well known songs, I've no idea why. I think it stems from playing around with the mixing levels ...
Meet Ginger Baker, The Most Terrifying Man in MusicIn the opening scenes of a documentary about his life, Ginger Baker breaks the film maker’s nose with his walking stick. The film’s title...