was the brainchild of the Hives, who always wanted to do a song with Lauper. "This is a Christmas song whose eggnog has been spiked with acid, and whose definition of holiday cheer comes with a complimentary kick below the belt," wroteHuffington Postin 2013....
“You wrote these?” “Yes.” Lorraine stood watching me. I stood beside her, leafing through the stories. Lorraine waited. I was conscious of myself, then: conscious of myself thinking about myself. . . . What was I waiting for? Could I not presume to act on the assumption that Lo...
The story wrote itself. A once hugely successful stadium rock band takes a commercial stumble for a couple of albums, then releases their best record in a decade.U2showed they still had some fight in them as the decade turned, issuing the triumphant single “Beautiful Day” and then following...
Pretty much the perfect Motorhead album if not forAce of Spades, this one put the fledgling band’s troubled beginnings behind them and wrote the manual for their distinct musical style. From the ruthless battery of the title track (their first bona fide thrasher) to deliberate classics like ...
The story wrote itself. A once hugely successful stadium rock band takes a commercial stumble for a couple of albums, then releases their best record in a decade.U2showed they still had some fight in them as the decade turned, issuing the triumphant single “Beautiful Day” and then following...
[for]Destroyer, he walked around with the whistle. He was contributing a lot of things. Nobody in Kiss wrote the “Detroit Rock City” solo, that was an Ezrin idea. That’s orchestrated. It’s brilliant, it’s like a trumpet, but nobody could play it better than those guys the way...
[for]Destroyer, he walked around with the whistle. He was contributing a lot of things. Nobody in Kiss wrote the “Detroit Rock City” solo, that was an Ezrin idea. That’s orchestrated. It’s brilliant, it’s like a trumpet, but nobody could play it better than those guys the way...
Beatles' lead guitarist George Harrison didn't soak up the spotlight like Paul and John, but his impact was just as large. Harrison wrote some of the Beatles' most loved songs, from "Something" to "Here Comes the Sun." He's been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice: as...
"On joining the ranks of Apple, we wrote from nine to five like any other job . . . . . . It was hard work but a great time to be around. Paul McCartney asked us to submit songs for Mary Hopkin and thus "Sparrow" became our first cover. Looking back, the decline of Apple was...
s drinking, the Cheever family’s protective attitude toward John, the impossibility of ever truly understanding another person’s life. As I wrote of Donaldson in my newspaper article: “It was his turn to do the talking, and he, like Cheever a dozen summers ago on Nantucket, had plenty ...