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What to Know About Music’s Copyright Gold Rush | Pitchfork
Neil Young, Lindsey Buckingham, Shakira, and others recently sold their song catalogs to the flashy music publishing upstart Hipgnosis, in deals that have implications for the future of the recording industry. Check the whole article at Source: What to Know About Music’s Copyright Gold Rush | Pitchfork
JEFFREY MORGAN : biographer of ALICE COOPER and THE STOOGES
SIZZLING–geddit?–PLATTER OF THE WEEK: David Bowie – Blackstar (ISO) :: You’d think that suffering a heart attack after recording the less than holy holy Heathen would’ve warned him to resist the dark side, but nooooooooooooo. Various Artists – Moogfest 2006 Live (MVD Visual DVD) :: When it comes to aural affection, Moog synthesizer adherents are…
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Here’s Prince, Holding Court in his First Filmed Interview
Prince rarely gave live interviews, but when he did, he had a way of mesmerising the audience. We dug up this rare clip from 1985 when the artist agreed to talk in front of cameras for the first time ever. It’s a rather peculiar conversation in which his then-manager Steve Fargnoli (who later sued the…
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Carlos Alomar’s Golden Years with David Bowie (Interview)
I saw Carlos Alomar play with Iggy Pop in a couple of different venues. Always so cool and conscious of the impact he made on stage with his instrument. This is a great read. Station To Station and the Berlin Trilogy When we went to California to do Station to Station, and we did the other albums later, the Brian…
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Steve Stevens: How I Wrote “Rebel Yell” | GuitarPlayer
I was always a big Generation X fan. “We wrote the Rebel Yell songs ‘Flesh for Fantasy,’ ‘Eyes Without a Face,’ and some others during rehearsals,” Stevens recalls. “But ‘Rebel Yell’ didn’t come about till we went to Electric Lady Studios to start recording. We had the music first. We ran tape as we were…
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That day that rocked the world: the chaotic story of Status Quo’s Live Aid
“Of course, nobody knew the impact it would have at the beginning,” Rossi continued, “but even then I was aware that most of big business just kept its head down and thought, ‘We’ll let these rock’n’roll dickheads do this and it will go away’. And it did. And that annoyed me. “I mean, there was…
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Bad Reputation: The real beginning and the real end of Thin Lizzy
Looking back now, 40 years on from its release, it’s impossible not to see Bad Reputation as both the peak of Thin Lizzy and the beginning of a long, drawn-out end. Brian Downey walked out not long after Gary Moore rejoined. “I was burnt out,” he says. “My health was really suffering. I needed to…
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Fiona Apple on How She Broke Free and Made the Album of the Year | Pitchfork
“I have spent many years wondering about that photo of you and Bob Dylan together at the Grammys in 1997.I was at the Grammys, I think, and [longtime manager] Andy [Slater] said, “Fiona, c’mere c’mere, Bob Dylan wants to meet you.” And I was like, “What?” I went over and stood with him and told…
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Mick Taylor interview: A Rolling Stone in exile
So there you have it, for today at least. Taylor insists his time with the Stones was a great experience, with Exile On Main St particularly fresh in the mind. For 2010’s deluxe reissue, he added a new guitar part to one of the bonus songs, Plundered My Soul. “Mick had to construct a vocal…
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Isolated Track: Keith Richards Guitar Solo On “Sympathy For The Devil”
The song was recorded for the Beggars Banquet album in early June of 1968 at Olympic Studios in London. It clocks in at a long 6 minutes and 18 seconds, although Keith’s solo track is only a little over 2 minutes long. Keith also played bass on the track as well. Parts of the recording…
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Robert Plant interview: my life after Led Zeppelin | Louder
You’ve described Fate Of Nations as a turning point. Was that the first time you really felt comfortable as a solo artist? Not really. If it was about being comfortable, there wouldn’t be any point in being creative. I just needed to keep good company and, bit by bit, I made my way into that….
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How To Record Drums Like The Beatles In 1963
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Led Zeppelin IV: how it was made | Louder
Richard Branson’s then newly-established Virgin Records set up special stalls to sell it, demand was so great. It was a similar story in the US, though Carole King’s Tapestry kept it off the No.1 spot. It didn’t matter. The airplay generated by Stairway To Heaven ensured the album remained in the Top 40 of the…
Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips are making the most of their quarantine time – The Washington Post
Phillips was also born in 1963, though she was raised in Pennsylvania by followers of the controversial Freud disciple Wilhelm Reich, a group that was hands-off in terms of child-rearing. “All about expressing, expressing, and not repressing anything,” she says. “And no rules.” At 15 she left home to “live with a drug dealer,” but…