The Beatles were partly inspired by Stockhausen, so this is one of many overlaps. The Beatles are not classical. They may be "classics" but the term classical is reserved for large-scale constructions. Bartelby Bionic Poster Feb 6, 2025 #899 I did not say the...
"I remember only one truly terrible row between my parents, and sat terrified in the dining room as cups were smashed in the kitchen; I believe Mum flourished a knife. I intervened, weeping like a child actor, only to be told off by Dad who hated the melodrama to which I was contribut...
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 s...
We're not sure if you'd call these rock and roll love triangles, but here are 12 rock stars who were constantly swapping women back and forth in the '60s, ...
2. The Beatles (Help!) It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the band that brought us classics like “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” were well familiar with substances of all types. While filming their musical-comedy adventure movieHelp!The Beatles were in the full throes of their mariju...
Qigang Chen: The five classical composers I voted for all have something in common: they were unconcerned with keeping up with the latest fashions and were relatively free of outside influence. They were, in short, utterly individual. Verdi’s age coincided with the height of Austro-Germanic ...
The 125+ Best Solo Artists Who Used To Front A Band Ranker Music Updated January 15, 2025 169.1K views 145 items Ranked By 114.7K votes 8.5K voters 43 reranks Voting Rules Only musicians who were the lead singers of other bands. Rank them on their solo careers. Latest a...
The Beatles were fans and socialised with Moon in particular during the mid-1960s.[383] In 1965, Paul McCartney said the Who “are the most exciting thing around”[383] and was inspired to write “Helter Skelter” in the group’s “heavy” style;[384] John Lennon borrowed the acoustic ...
We know there are incredible race car drivers from Texas but only one has been able to win the biggest race in NASCAR. Since 1959, there have been over 60 different winners for NASCAR's coveted event to kick off the new season in February: the Daytona 500. We've had many to come clo...
Barge made under his own name were a pair of instrumentals for Checker, a subsidiary of Chess Records, in 1956. “Country,” his first single, was a hit along the Eastern Seaboard. “When Chess heard it, they said, “What the hell is that?” Mr. Barge said of the record in...