Last but not least, Eazy-E would have remembered someone sticking a needle into his arm. How did Eazy-E die? The most likely scenario is that Eazy-E caught HIV from one of the many women that he slept with throughout his career. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, a lot of str...
It’s been nearly two decades sinceBeth Gibbonshas graced a Coachella stage. The last time was with Portishead in 2008, a performance that is among the festival's most legendary, both for its rarity (one of a tiny handful of U.S. fest appearances the band ever did) and larger-th...
"Dreams Don't Die" lays the four-time GRAMMY nominee's vulnerabilities bare as he laments, "I know how to hurt/ And I know how to lie/ I've been doing it all my life" in his signature growl. However, fans will have to tune into the episode to find out just how the track conne...
Although Freddie Mercury’s attraction to the name had its queer aspect—a way of flaunting his sexuality without explicitly declaring it—the group’s music really did sound lordly. Take Brian May’s guitar-playing on “Procession,” the opening track on 1974’s Queen II: It’s as stately...
Eventually, he continued, something changed. “I started listening to Steely Dan in my house, and it was like, ‘That is some weird playing!’ I started learning Steely Dan stuff, which I never really did a deep dive into. And then I just got into playing guitar every day. Steely Dan...
The Abolitionists, in his view, posed a threat to the stability of the Empire that he would die to defend – which he eventually did. Afua Hirsch asks if Nelson should continue to be revered when he had promoted views that were so cruel and inhuman and repugnant to us in this age ...
It was a moment that delivered the group their first platinum album at long last. "Guardians of the Galaxy is a jumping off point for some of the newer generation," he says. "It's an amazing, amazing thing that just proves that what they did has a timeless quality."...
There were no gremlins; there was no backbiting. Everyone just said, “This would be a great idea. Let’s give it a shot.” Those were very happy times, to come together like that in 2006. We did some extensive touring and recording. I’ll always have fond memories of that period ...
Queen (1991):Freddie Mercury's subsequent death, and the realization that this would be his last album, worked to give 'Innuendo' a contextual sadness. But other than the contemplative U.K. No. 1 "These Are the Days of Our Lives" (which was written by Roger Taylor), you really don'...
For 'Bohemian Rhapsody' fans, here's the whole story of how Queen frontman Freddie Mercury died from HIV/AIDS complications at a tragically young age.