"Electra" was not only the last single released by Dio prior toRonnie James Dio'sdeathin May 2010, but also the last song the band recorded together before his passing. "It's a really good song," Dio said in aninterviewconducted in 2009, the same year he was diagnosed with stomach ca...
Marley appeared before the crowd like a prophet in a denim work shirt, dreadlocks bobbing, and few moments in pop are as spine-tingling as the opening of “No Woman, No Cry,” the audience chanting the chorus like a hymn before Marley had even sung a word. Recalled bassist Aston Barrett...
'Live' produced the Top 40 hit "Seven Bridges Road," a closely sung vocal feature that sounded like the portrait of brotherly love. In reality, this career-spanning double-live album – mixed by Glenn Frey and Don Henley via Fed Ex while living on opposite coasts – was anything but. Th...
One song. One. You wanna get an idea of how radical The Ramones music was in 1976? Go put on a Doobie Brothers album from the early ‘70s, or an album by Journey. Then follow it with The Ramones “Beat On The Brat.”It’s like someone taking a sledgehammer to a refrigerator and...
Audio: Bob Dylan Interviewed By Nat Hentoff Part Two, February 1966 –‘If I had come out and sung “Desolation Row” five years ago, I probably would’ve been murdered.’ February 20, 2015 Bob Dylan’s ‘Shadows In The Night’ Drops To #22 In U.S. February 20, 2015 Audio: Bo...
to Lincoln Center in comfortable time. My seat was one of the best in the house (it was a gift). This co-production between The Met and the Dutch National Opera of Rossini’s last opera, Guillaume Tell, was the first time it has been sung in French at the Met and the first time ...