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    The Wild Story of Recording Metallica’s ‘Ride the Lightning’

    The Wild Story of Recording Metallica’s ‘Ride the Lightning’

    When 1984 rolled around, it was less Orwellian than some had predicted. Far from being a time of media censorship and cultural...
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    The Birth Of Astral Weeks

    The Birth Of Astral Weeks

    The story of how Van Morrison fled record-industry thugs, hid out in Boston, and wrote one of rock’s greatest albums. One day in 1968,...
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    The Make Up Of Song Genres

    The Make Up Of Song Genres

    Canadian illustrator John Atkinson reveals the anatomy of different styles of songs.
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    How Fred Astaire Could Dance On The Walls And Ceiling.

    How Fred Astaire Could Dance On The Walls And Ceiling.

    The original article appears here in Bigfott.com It's no great secret how Fred Astaire was able to literally “dance around the room” in...
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    Paul McCartney And His Isolated Bass

    Paul McCartney And His Isolated Bass

    In many a musical situation, one can communicate an entire playing style in a name. When it comes to the bass—in pop music, at least—one...
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    ‘God Help You’: John Lennon’s Vicious Letter To Linda And Paul McCartney (1971)

    ‘God Help You’: John Lennon’s Vicious Letter To Linda And Paul McCartney (1971)

    In 1971, John Lennon wrote to Linda and Paul McCartney, a response that was triggered by a letter from Linda in which she had admonished...
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    Jimmy Page Tells the Story of “Kashmir”

    Jimmy Page Tells the Story of “Kashmir”

    One of the most original and distinctive songs Led Zeppelin ever recorded was the exotic, eight-and-a-half minute "Kashmir," from the...
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    AC/DC Plays a Short Gig at CBGB in 1977: Played on Punk’s Hallowed Grounds

    AC/DC Plays a Short Gig at CBGB in 1977: Played on Punk’s Hallowed Grounds

    Punk rock and heavy metal were two genres that evolved over the ‘70s, but seemed to run parallel to each other, despite sharing common...
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    When The Beatles Played A Gig And Only 18 People Showed Up.

    When The Beatles Played A Gig And Only 18 People Showed Up.

    In December 1961, Sam Leach landed his musician friends from Liverpool a series of gigs at the Palais Ballroom in Aldershot, Hampshire....
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    How Brian Wilson Lost His Mind And Created Brilliance

    How Brian Wilson Lost His Mind And Created Brilliance

    Imagine Olly Murs going into the studio for a year, only to produce an album of Mongolian throat singing. Or Katy Perry dropping an album...
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    Shane MacGowan is one of the greatest writers of modern times. Exhibit A: The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn

    Shane MacGowan is one of the greatest writers of modern times. Exhibit A: The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn

    Cuchulainn was a powerful leader in Irish mythology. He is the central figure in the "Ulster Cycle" of poems which is roughly the Irish...
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    Motown: The Sound That Changed America

    Motown: The Sound That Changed America

    Above the front windows of Motown Records' Detroit headquarters was a sign that read "Hitsville U.S.A." Placed there by Motown founder...
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    How Leonard Cohen & David Bowie Faced Death Through Their Art: A Look at Their Final Albums

    How Leonard Cohen & David Bowie Faced Death Through Their Art: A Look at Their Final Albums

    When Leonard Cohen released You Want it Darker in late 2016, some suspected that it would be his last album. When the 82-year-old...
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    Letterhead Designs Well Known People Used Throughout History

    Letterhead Designs Well Known People Used Throughout History

    We’ve all seen letterheads before—the text and design at the top of a letter—but we rarely stop to think about it. This roundup of famous...
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    The Truth About The Infamous Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash Is Stranger Than Fiction

    The Truth About The Infamous Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash Is Stranger Than Fiction

    Tragedy struck Lynryd Skynyrd just three days after the group released its fifth album and was seemingly on the brink of unprecedented...
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    When Lennon met McCartney

    When Lennon met McCartney

    6 July 1957 was a pivotal day for the history of modern music: it was the day that John Lennon met Paul McCartney for the first time. In...
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    Pink Floyd's Floating Concert In Venice That Forced The City Council To Resign, 1989

    Pink Floyd's Floating Concert In Venice That Forced The City Council To Resign, 1989

    The 1989 Pink Floyd concert in Venice on a floating stage next to San Marco’s Square gathered over 200,000 fans in the crowd and...
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    Paul McCartney's Civil Rights Song: Blackbird

    Paul McCartney's Civil Rights Song: Blackbird

    Paul McCartney’s “Blackbird” competes with Lennon’s “Julia” as the most tender song on the Beatles’ White Album and maybe in the band’s...
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    The Story Of How Mozart Came To Copy Down Allegri’s Miserere, After Hearing It Twice

    The Story Of How Mozart Came To Copy Down Allegri’s Miserere, After Hearing It Twice

    Allegri’s sublime Miserere has been a choral favourite for centuries. Once it’s heard, it's never forgotten. That soaring high C, always...
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    The Making Of Sgt Pepper

    The Making Of Sgt Pepper

    The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band may or may not still be the “greatest rock album of all time,” but it most certainly...
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    Ray Manzarek’s Keyboard Part On The Doors', Love Her Madly

    Ray Manzarek’s Keyboard Part On The Doors', Love Her Madly

    I love when you can focus on the musicianship of a song you know very well by hearing it in a completely new way. The following audio...
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    The Weird Butcher Beatles Album Cover

    The Weird Butcher Beatles Album Cover

    The Beatles decided to use this photograph for their Yesterday and Today album cover. The four normally squeaky clean Beatles had dressed...
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    The Clash and Combat Rock, 40 Years On

    The Clash and Combat Rock, 40 Years On

    Take a quick glance at the Clash’s 1982 album Combat Rock and you’ll see photographer Pennie Smith’s image of four men standing together,...
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    An Animated Visualisation of the Bass Line for the Motown Classic, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough"

    An Animated Visualisation of the Bass Line for the Motown Classic, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough"

    Jamerson is the Schoenberg of getting from the I chord to the IV chord. He’s algorithmically generating a new pattern every phrase…[He]...
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