He also worked on The Basement Tapes, which was said to have helped invent the Americana genre. The Band's debut album Music from Big Pink made the U.S. Top 30, and went gold. The Band played at Woodstock in 1969, and went on to become the first North American rock band to ...
Who is the most famous rock star who is an introvert? Michael Jackson tops our list. Michael Jackson had often spoke about being shy in interviews. Likewise, in a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone, Jimi Hendrix's brother Leon said, "Jimi was always introverted. My dad didn't like him pl...
The Who’sentire catalogis full of absolute gems. Most of the band’s music was written by Townshend. He touched on rock’s most iconic themes and feelings in a way few did or really have sense. That aspect was touched on in the 2000 filmAlmost Famous. Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee) says at...
Originally, due to the numerous posh and beautiful women he was surrounding himself with at the time, he was going to call the song “Uptown Girls.” Billy has claimed that the style of the song was inspired by the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and it’s not hard to...
After the disbandment of the Experience in 1969, Jimi Hendrix was a guitarist without a band. The rock icon went through a period where he collaborated with a rotating cast of musicians, a period that included his famous performance at Woodstock. He described his backing band that night as “...
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Joni Mitchell neither attended nor performed at Woodstock, but after seeing reports about the festival that weekend, she wrote a song about it. Her own version of "Woodstock," featuring just her electric piano and mutli-tracked vocals, was released as the B-side to "Big Yellow Taxi" and on...
all of it only added to the punk-rock aura surrounding the Sex Pistols. The 1977 debut,Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols,made them rock’s biggest counterculture act. But the group would fall apart the very next year during a tour of the U.S., amid infighting and drug...
I had made my choice, for now. It would be music." "All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to the truth." (I Can't Explain): "This was the most critical challenge I had ever faced. I isolated myself in the kitchen of the flat in Ealing where I kept my tape...
Billie Holiday became one of the first Black women to work with a white orchestra when she toured with Artie Shaw in the late 1930s. One of the most famous jazz vocalists in history, Holiday's song "Strange Fruit," ananti-lynching poem by Abel Meeropol, eventually earned recognition from ...