Songwriting and Music Production
“These songs didn’t come out of thin air,” he said. “I didn’t just make them up out of whole cloth. . . . It all came out of traditional music: traditional folk music, traditional rock and roll, and traditional big-band swing orchestra music. . . . If you sang ‘John Henry’ as many times as me—‘John Henry was a steel-driving man…
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I saw the band at Massey Hall in Toronto, just after their productive years were over. It was a different set with many hanging curtains and not quite as many musicians on stage. A special kind of music. Reuniting for a 50th anniversary tour, the band have lost none of their sophisticated swagger in a…
It’s a masterpiece The Court Of The Crimson King The lush-textured, panoramic, epic title track that closes the album was actually the first track the band recorded, on July 16. Hearing this huge, gothic, densely orchestrated piece, it’s almost impossible to believe that it was originally “a sort of Bob Dylan song, if you can…
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In 1976, the Stones pulled a vast crowd to Knebworth. It was a day of surprises, not least how late everything ran. In 2007, Classic Rock delivered this eye witness account ““We were supposed to finish by midnight,” Bannister remembers, “and it eventually ended at about 2am, I think David (now Lord) Cobbold, who held…
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I remember when this came out. What a great set of movies. But of course, there’s no accounting for taste. Especially when it tastes like pool water. Oi! “Yes, Ma’am,” Holmes replies, clearly intoxicated.“Do you drink very much?”“Pardon?”“Do you drink very much?”“Uh, yes,” he replies, “I’m a full-blown alcoholic.” Source: How The Decline Of Western…
“If John were alive, there’s been a lot of time for him to make some bad records, but he also might have made something really great. That’s one thing about dying young: it’s good for the ‘iconic’ status. “The positive thing is that it’s good that The Beatles didn’t play at Live Aid or Live 8,…
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“He’s a great singer — he always has been — but this sounds like something is eating away at him from the inside, and I don’t think it’s a voice injury,” Hawkins concluded. “It saddens me to see it, I’m sure we’re all disappointed.”As the Darkness bandleader warns off the top of the video, “we’re…
You could argue that McCartney worked the hardest to distance himself from the prickliness of the Hamburg days to become a more wholesome performer, while Lennon strived to hold on to his venom. That combination was what always appealed to me, though; the velvet glove covering the iron fist is what made The Beatles work…
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Magic and Loss was released on January 14, 1992. Despite its difficult subject matter it became one of Lou Reed’s most successful albums. The single What’s Good topped the Modern Rock Tracks Billboard chart and the album reached a new high for Reed, No. 6 on the UK LP chart. Asked if he was surprised…
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