I didn’t see her again that day, but before we broke down our gear I wrote her a note asking whether she’d be interested in working with me on some orchestrations while The Who were on the road in America – a preposterous ploy, even though I really was in the market for a good...
the band would also leave Lambert and Stamp's management. As he wrote the album in 1972, he released Who Came First, a collection of private recordings and demos he made for Meher Baba. Entwistle had already begun his own solo career with the album Smash Your Head Against the Wall, and...
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The Conversation: Pantera’s 1994 albumFar Beyond Drivenis the heaviest album to ever top the Billboard 200… and it closes out with one of the most somber, relaxed songs Black Sabbath ever wrote. Seriously, after listening to the lyrics on “Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills,” who eve...
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“All that alternative stuff really propelled us into 'Far Beyond Driven,'” Drummer Vinnie Paul told ‘Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal,’“Before we even wrote a note we went, ‘This album has to be the most over-the-top metal record ever made.’ After ‘Vulgar...
“All that alternative stuff really propelled us into 'Far Beyond Driven,'” Drummer Vinnie Paul told ‘Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal,’“Before we even wrote a note we went, ‘This album has to be the most over-the-top metal record ever made.’ After ‘Vulgar...
In addition to drumming for the seminal English band, The Moody Blues, Graeme Edge wrote spoken-word poems that, along with the orchestral and progressive elements of the band, helped define them as true pioneers. Their most famous song, 1967’s “Nights In White Satin,” includes Graeme’s...
In 1983, UC Irvine PhD dropout John Langley and producing partner Malcolm Barbour teamed up to make the documentary Cocaine Blues. Focusing on Broward County, Florida sheriff Nick Navarro’s struggles with the drug trade, the film drew the attention of Geraldo Rivera, who ...
Townshend supposedly wrote “My Generation” on his 20th birthday, May 19th, 1965, while riding a train from London to Southampton for a television appearance. The song wasn’t intended as a youth-mutiny anthem at first. It was a Jimmy Reed-style blues, reflecting Townshend’s fears about ...