Year: 2020
Interview: Lou Reed on the Velvets, Bowie… and his love of heavy metal | Louder
It is not wholly beyond the realms of possibility that you could have become a critic yourself. Could you live with such a horrifying prospect? No. It’s interesting. I was learning the triangular paragraph, and that was it for me. You’re not supposed to have an opinion of the triangular paragraph. So I moved from…
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Joni Mitchell: The Songs She Wrote Before She Released a Record
It was all there in 1967, before most of the world had ever heard of her: the northern ice, the fancy clothes and the ache of sadness, the non-triadic melodies, the velvet vocal and painting with words. In her early days, she had written too many songs to take care of, so many of them…
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Mick Jagger Responds to McCartney Saying Beatles were Better than the Stones
“The Rolling Stones is a big concert band in other decades and other areas when The Beatles never even did an arena tour, Madison Square Garden with a decent sound system” Jagger said. “They broke up before that business started”. Jagger thinks that while they sing the blues, the Stones went on to embrace something…
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How Keith Richards is Spending His Quarantine – Rolling Stone
I remember very clearly when this album Goat’s Head Soup came out. I was in Grade 8 and we were have a contest and the prize was that album. I never one. Thanks Allan. You went to Switzerland beforehand to do a little bit of writing with with Mick, and that’s where you wrote “Angie.”…
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Mick Jagger on the Future of Live Music, the Next Stones Album and More – Rolling Stone
Do you think of Goats Head as a particularly druggy album? Druggy? Was it a druggy album? It’s not got a lot of druggy subject material, apart from perhaps “Coming Down Again,” but you’ll have to talk to Keith about that. I mean, my guess is that could be a drug reference. [Laughs.] But the…
Leslie West: How I Wrote “Mississippi Queen” | GuitarPlayer
“When we released the song as a single, we put ‘Mississippi Queen’ on both sides so DJs couldn’t get creative and play the flipside instead. The single only got to number 21, but I think it could have gone a lot higher. I don’t know how they decide these charts. I mean, radio stations were…
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How the Beatles Really Ended Up at a Garden Party in Brentwood Los Angeles Magazine
The Beatles at a garden party fund-raiser for the Hemophilia Society in Brentwood, 1964. ALAN HAD TO ARRANGE GETTING THE BEATLES THERE, AND CALLED HIS USUAL LIMO SERVICE, FEELING OBLIGED TO TELL THEM WHO THEY WOULD BE TRANSPORTING. THEY TURNED HIM DOWN—THEY DIDN’T WANT TO RISK GETTING THEIR LIMO DAMAGED BY “CRAZY KIDS.” ALAN CALLED…
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UK venues react to the latest performing arts guidance
Nathan Clark, venue owner: “I feel it’s a simple contradiction: ‘have live music, but don’t have it loud’. The main pillars of live music are social interaction, enjoyment, and emotional attachment. What they’re asking [audiences] to do is to sit there quietly, detach your emotions and don’t get involved. The artist has to mute their…
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Heroes by David Bowie: The Story Behind The Song | Louder
Heroes was released as a single in September 1977. It only reached No.24 in the UK, and didn’t chart at all in the US. But the emotional power of the song would continue to resonate, as it became one of Bowie’s theme songs, along with the likes of Space Oddity and Changes. Its most memorable…
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“He Could Do What He Wanted”: Behind Freddie Mercury’s Munich Years
“Freddie’s studio day would start at two in the afternoon. It is pointless calling a singer into a studio before then, anyway, because in the morning the voice hasn’t warmed up yet. With Queen, Freddie would be in the studio and playing around on the piano working on material. In Munich, he had lots of…
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How The Beatles made Revolver, the album that changed Everything | Louder
Revolver’s commercial impact was immediate, the album topping the UK chart for seven weeks and the US chart for six. Culturally, although there had been earlier instances of psychedelic music, mostly in San Francisco, London and New York, Revolver opened the floodgates, and changed the thinking, and the chemical preferences, of young rock and pop…
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George Harrison’s Hilarious Culture Shock Trip Through Small Town America
There was originally going to be an extra passenger on that trip to Illinois – Ringo Starr. On hearing of Louise’s intentions, the legendary drummer ”begged off, saying, ‘If she’s going to make us work, I’m not going.’”Harrison became a slight talking point in the Benton area. He bought a guitar – a Rickenbacker 425…
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Watch Slash Play a Stratocaster During the “November Rain” Video Shoot | GuitarPlayer
It does look weird. “I have a bunch of cool Teles and some cool Strats. All things considered, I’m a Les Paul guy but I love good-sounding guitars. And as far as I’m concerned, you know, and Gibson probably wouldn’t want me to say it, but the Strat is hands-down probably one of the best,…
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Valley of the New York Dolls | The Village Voice
Check it out. I personally love this band and have both original LPs on vinyl. However, like the band themselves, I hear them as protesters yelling expletives from the top of the anti-corporate music bus. They were only Human Beings. Enjoy! The dreams of so many good people died with the New York Dolls. I…
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