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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Betty Davis, The World Just Wasn't Ready For You.
In 1974, a year before the release of Nasty Gal, the third studio album by funk and fashion trailblazer Betty Davis, the New York Times...
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The Last Time Pink Floyd Met Syd Barrett
The Syd Barrett that Roger Waters met while studying at Cambridgeshire High School For Boys was a starkly different soul to the one who...
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Famous Musicians When They Were Young
Before rockstars walked the earth, they were little. Here's the proof. Some of these are instantly recognisable, others are hard to spot....
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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 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
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.
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
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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