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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‘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”
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 “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
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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