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Sgt Peppers Album Behind The Scenes – YouTube

May 29, 2021 W A

“They don’t work all those rules.” ~Paul McCartney Interview with Peter Blake Sgt. Pepper cover designer — Get a behind the scenes look at the making of album art for: “The best POP album of all time” Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

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Bob Dylan at 80, by Declan Kiberd: He was so much older then, he’s younger than that now

May 25, 2021 W A

As with WB Yeats, whose muse grew younger as he aged, so too for his fellow Nobel laureate There is something very consistent in Dylan’s desire to disappear. Terrified of pursuit by fans in his earlier tours, he would jump into hotel cupboards. Craving silence, he wrote in order to hide and he hid in…

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As Much As I Can. As Black As I Am.

May 19, 2021 W A

By the following year, with Goude and Blackwell out of the picture, Jones wanted more involvement in her debut album for EMI subsidiary Manhattan Records, 1986’s Inside Story. Taking EMI A&R head Bruce Garfield’s direction to “imagine a leaf being blown through the streets of New York, twisting and turning in the sunshine” as a starting point, Jones and Woolley wrote every song together, then joined multi-platinum Svengali Nile Rodgers in New York to transform their demos. This mutually flattering union yielded her last R&B radio victory, “I’m Not Perfect (But I’m Perfect for You)”. Indicting white-collar criminals and Hollywood liars, Inside Story revealed the singer’s observant, socially conscious side, while the jagged arrangements meshed Rodgers’ ricocheting, jazz-schooled guitar with Woolley’s smart pop. It is a singer/songwriter record you can dance to.

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Live At The Kitchen | Talking Heads – 1976

May 10, 2021 W A

— click the source link below , then the picture link to the right for more great shots of the early band. This live performance at The Kitchen’s former SoHo space was one of Talking Heads’s early performances. The group was formed in 1975, and this show preceded the release of the band’s first record…

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A Box Full of Rocks: The El Cajon Years of Lester Bangs – YouTube

April 18, 2021 W A

This student film explores the formative years of legendary music journalist Lester Bangs. Bangs grew up in El Cajon, CA, a Southern California suburb 15 freeway miles east of San Diego. This 90-minute documentary interviews many of Bangs’s childhood and high school friends while examining the family issues and early influences that made Lester Bangs…

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Is the streaming experiment failing artists? – Loreena McKennitt

March 27, 2021 W A

ed. From her blog. Today, many artists around the world are holding demonstrations at Spotify offices to deliver their demands; a penny per stream, increased transparency, an end to lawsuits against artists, and more. unionofmusicians.org/justice-at-spotifyAs many of you know, I have run my own career and label since 1985. During this time, I have…

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Pianist Alan Pasqua Talks “Murder Most Foul,” Dylan’s Nobel Lecture, and the 1978 Tour – Flagging Down the Double E’s

March 27, 2021 W A

As a piano accompanist for this long thing with so many words, how do you keep your part interesting? How do you keep yourself engaged for such a long track?In our jazz world, we just lost a dear soul, Chick Corea. I was reading some of his advice that he had typed out for somebody,…

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Attention Seekers – The Best And Worst Gimmicks In Music | Features | Clash Magazine

March 23, 2021 W A

In the beginning, when Select magazine coined the term, Britpop was good, and it captured the imagination of music fans across the UK. But as its popularity grew and it began to exert more of an influence on mainstream culture, it suddenly became inescapable. Tony Blair rode into No.10 on the wave of ‘Cool Britannia’,…

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Every Black Sabbath album ranked, from worst to best

March 21, 2021 W A

Before Black Sabbath, there were plenty of rock groups that played heavy: The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin. But the music that Sabbath created in the early 70s was heavier and darker than anything that had come before, and it would prove seminal. “Black Sabbath are the forefathers of heavy…

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Alice Cooper Speaks on ‘Big Mistake’ He Made With Iggy Pop, Shares Opinion on Dee Snider & Twisted Sister

March 20, 2021 W A

“No, I don’t think I ever saw Iggy when he wasn’t shirtless. I made a big mistake one time; he said, ‘Hey, you’re going to Germany, could you pick me up a switchblade?’”And I went, ‘Yeah, I’ll pick him a stiletto.’ Of course, he gets on stage and starts cutting himself with it, and we…

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Rage Against the Machine’s Reunion Tour Will Not Have Drive-In Shows

March 5, 2021 W A

“We’ll never be one of these sellouts that’s gonna go play a drive-in show or play a venue that holds 100,000 people and there’s only 10,000 people there. That’s bullshit,” Commerford stated. “Rage will never do that. It’s not a good show unless the audience is going off too. It’s gotta be a shared experience.”…

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Ian Brown Cancels Fest Headliner Gig Because Vaccinations Are Required For Attendees

March 4, 2021 W A

“My Saturday night headline show at NHBD Weekender Festival will now not happen! I refuse to accept vaccination proof as condition of entry. Refunds are available!” Brown tweeted. “My Saturday night headline show at NHBD Weekender Festival will now not happen! I refuse to accept vaccination proof as condition of entry. Refunds are available!” Brown…

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Kashmir by Led Zeppelin: The story behind the song | Louder

February 24, 2021 W A

There were also some moments where cloaked references to Page’s ongoing obsession with the occult could be discerned: images of ‘Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace’ and a ‘pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream’ – pilot? Or Magus, perhaps?Performed for the first time on the band’s…

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Trigger Cities May Be The Key To Growing Your Audience – Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog

February 4, 2021 W A

What this means is that it’s way easier and cheaper to gain followers in Mexico City, Lima, Peru, and even Istanbul than it is in New York or London, even though those cities are major music centers. I’ve written about this in the past, but as with everything online, the data changes constantly and the…

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White Light/White Heat: How The Velvet Underground Foretold The Future

January 30, 2021 W A

“It may have taken years to gain traction, but nothing would ever be the same after White Light/White Heat – not least the Velvets, following Cale’s enforced departure in autumn 1968. It’s one of a precious handful of albums that helped rock music turn a significant corner… before dragging it down an alley and beating…

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