Hollie is a musical child daughter of Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook and her mother Jeni was a singer in Culture Club with Boy George as her godfather. All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of music in your life. Frank Zappa – Little Umbrellas (1969) A fascinating ...
Jason Schwartzman - who was the drummer for Phantom Planet and has released several albums with his solo project, Coconut Records - played Beatles drummer Ringo Star in the 2007 film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA Dig Deeper Wes Anderson's Child...
Jason Schwartzman - who was the drummer for Phantom Planet and has released several albums with his solo project, Coconut Records - played Beatles drummer Ringo Star in the 2007 film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA Dig Deeper Wes Anderson's Child ...
Just like that, McCartney was in the band. Soon, he brought along a friend, George Harrison, 14. By 1960, they had added a drummer, Pete Best. Calling themselves the Beatles, they turned professional. By the spring of 1963, the Beatles' first album had gone to No. 1 in Britain, wit...
Ringo Starr, the former drummer for The Beatles, received the British commonwealth’s highest honor for his contribution to music and charities. The 77-year-old Ringo Starr received a knighthood from Prince William, decades after his lone surviving ex-Beatle Paul McCartney was honored. ...
Keith's drumming was described as 'lead' drumming and John was having bass solos as early as 1965 in rock music.Success out of the gate gave the group some measure of creative control on their next album which they lacked on the first. Pete and manager Kit Lambert had been talking about...
The band’sbeloved drummerhad died in September 1978, from an overdose of the pills he was taking to combat alcoholism. The very next day, his bandmates vowed to continue and were in production with theQuadropheniamovie before the end of the month. In January 1979, they announced former Fa...
Their first single as the Who, “I Can’t Explain” (1965), reached the UK top ten, and was followed by a string of hit singles including “My Generation” (1965), “Substitute” (1966) and “Happy Jack” (1966). In 1967, they performed at the Monterey Pop Festival and released ...
Lori Mattix was 14 years old when she met David Bowie for the first time. As she described the meeting, which was during the infamous Ziggy Stardust tour: "he had hair the color of carrots, no eyebrows, and the whitest skin imaginable." At the time, Lori's father was deceased, and...
Also ranks #4 on The Greatest Rock Songwriters Of All Time 16 George Harrison 1,493 votes As the lead guitarist for The Beatles, he was often overshadowed by his more famous bandmates but later came into his own as a solo artist with a series of successful albums that sho...