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The most stunning thing about "Like a Rolling Stone" is how unprecedented it was: the impressionist voltage of Dylan's language, the intensely personal accusation in his voice ("Ho-o-o-ow does it fe-e-e-el?"), the apocalyptic charge of Kooper's garage-gospel organ andMike Bloomfield's...
France. C. The River Thames. England. D. River Po and Btanco Canal, Italy.B Shortly before Christmas last year, Brazilian ptano player John Carlos Martins invited his friends to a bar near his home in Sao Paolo. He wanted to show them the best gift he had received in many years: a...
One of the best – and most cynical – Christmas jams ever. Again, Ray’s working-class roots inform the song. It’s about a department store Santa Claus (commonly referred to as “Father Christmas” in England): “A gang of kids came over and mugged me/And knocked my reindeer to the...
Even the title itself refers to “a life that’s all propped up,” Jenkins adds. “You know, the beautiful people who lead bright and shiny lives that on the inside are all [messed] up.” And for more music about relationships gone wrong, check out,The 100 Best Breakup Songs of All...
At first glance, “Waterloo Sunset” seems like a simple song about gazing off at the Thames near London’s bustling Waterloo Station as another day ends. However, Ray Davies manages to capture a specific feeling familiar to city dwellers: the idea that the city is an overwhelming abyss, but...
an ambient album by Wendy Carlos, Mahavishnu Orchestra's flair for the well-timed pause, and Howe's idyllic home at Battersea along the River Thames. All of it was painstakingly assembled with completely exhausted producer Eddy Offord, who at one point keeled over with the reels still spinning...
Ken McKay/Thames/Shutterstock Nobody does zero-to-60 emotional peel outs like our girl, and “Holy Ground” is her equivalent of Evel Knievel jumping the Snake River Canyon. Note the sly brilliance of how she steals that Eighties guitar riff from none other than Billy Idol, making this...
CULT music-maker and sound artist Matthew Herbert is bringing a show about torture, war and censorship to Trafalgar Square. It's one of the more daring projects in next month's BT River of Music -- two days of free concerts, across six stages, at sites along the Thames, featuring music...
about having an affair during a lonely trip, the album includes a subtextual worry about the resurrection of Nazism – "but basically," Waters later admitted, "it was just a record about sex." Pink Floyd chose well.The Wallbecame a 23-times platinum smash, while the meandering, ...