Songwriting and Music Production
A year after Tom Petty died at age 66 of an accidental medication overdose, his family members, band mates and others discuss what went wrong and what, if anything, can be done to save others from the same fate. When Tom Petty was rushed to a hospital one year ago in full cardiac arrest, two…
Has 10 years of Spotify ruined music? The streaming service is a decade old on Sunday. So has it created a post-CD paradise for listeners – or turned today’s music into a grey goo? Our music editors argue for and against Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes Stars of Spotify:Stefflon Don, Daddy Yankee, BTS, R Kelly,…
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Earlier this week, an array of news outlets in New York City reported a macabre discovery: The body of a 53-year-old man was found floating in a Queens marina, fully clothed, with chains wrapped around his legs. The body was noticed by a passerby along the shoreline of the World’s Fair Marina in Flushing Harbor,…
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John Lydon, the 62-year-old punk legend, was in New York for a new documentary about Public Image Ltd. But first, he wanted to shop and smoke in a bar. “Don’t trust adults,” John Lydon said. “They’ll steal everything off you.”CreditCreditGeorge Etheredge for The New York Times By Alex Williams He arrived on the pop culture…
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Those lucky enough to have socialized with William Burroughs report the best situations had the smallest number of people, and the very best were often when Allen Ginsberg was present. As Steven Taylor, editor of this book, observes in his introduction, this is because of Burroughs’ “great shyness hiding behind a stern exterior and formal…
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Doug SeegersZuma Press Five years ago, Queens native Doug Seegers was a homeless country musician busking on the streets of Nashville. That’s when a Swedish documentary crew filmed him singing his rueful song “Going Down to the River” and booked him a recording session at Johnny Cash’s old studio. Now Seegers, 66, is one of…
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Well, there’s the whole sequence where he got your singer, Cherie Currie, to pose in lingerie. The thing is, these girls could’ve walked away any time if they were uncomfortable. Nobody was forced to do anything. Everybody wanted to be there. Including Cherie. And then with Cherie trying to blame that on Kim … well,…
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A brief overview of 4 days in a New York recording studio in 1974 when Bob Dylan commenced work on his masterpiece album, Blood on the Tracks. The full story of these sessions, take by take, is told in leading Dylan historian ClintonHeylin’s monograph No One Else Could Play That Tune: The Making Unmaking of…
Growing up in the Midlands, and Birmingham hologram gig Roy Orbison’s voice is among the most distinctive of all time and the Texan icon is not only regarded among the Greatest Artists Of All Time by Rolling Stone, but is also included in five different halls of fame. Top left, Roy Orbison, bottom left, Roy…