The Beatles' 'Hey Jude' Reenters U.K. Songs Chart After 14 Years The Beatles' 'Hey Jude' re-enters U.K. charts after 14 years, showcasing enduring popularity and lasting influence on music lovers worldwide. Top News · Jul 23, 2024
“Hendrix came in at two o’clock in the morning. I can still remember the audience – Rod Stewart, The Beatles, the Small Faces – all of them were silent when Jimi was done”: Junior Marvin on joining Bob Marley – and the night Hendrix shook his hand Marvin had been offered a 10 year contract from Stevie Wonder on the day he joined Bob Marley and the Wailers. But he never looked back. Here he looks back on making musical history with reggae's global icon Guitar World · Jul 22, 2024
“Josh Homme’s guitar playing is very learned and proper. I’m self-taught, and my style is more unorthodox. My guitar is untamed.” Brant Bjork made his name as Kyuss’ drummer – but he found his voice on guitar The drummer turned guitarist says starting in cover bands can improve your writing skills – and explains why he learned more from the Byrds and the Beatles than playing with Josh Homme in Kyuss Guitar World · Jul 22, 2024
“We were the belt-and-braces Pink Floyd – basic yobbos”: how Hawkwind boldly went where no band had gone before on psychedelic masterpiece In Search Of Space America had hippies and Woodstock – the UK had greasy, gritty space-heads Hawkwind and their cosmic epic In Search Of Space Louder · Jul 21, 2024
“To me, it's kind of milking a dead cow”: Beatles engineer Ken Scott on the release of Now and Then, the band’s final single, in 2023 “It's more to do with the fact that I know that George was not particularly fond of finishing it off back in the day,” he says MusicRadar · Jul 18, 2024
"A perfect storm of obstacles and misfortunes": New England released one of the greatest AOR albums of all time, but their career was derailed by the Pope With some top-drawer tunes, Paul Stanley producing and Kiss’s management behind them, New England seemed, and felt, poised for stardom. Cue bad luck and trouble Louder · Jul 18, 2024
John Lennon wasn’t joking about Jesus Brief letters: Lennon and Christianity | Pepys loses it | Two-child cap | Guardian delivery | Gareth and Gove | MPs and buses The Guardian - UK · Jul 16, 2024
Put Sgt Pepper back in its sleeve – after 60 years, A Hard Day’s Night is still the Beatles at their joyful best From its revolutionary first chord to its last bars, the Beatles’ overlooked third album transcends mere ‘pop’, says author Colin Fleming The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2024
"The show was vilified by the record companies because artists were insulted on a regular basis": In 1974 Captain Beefheart appeared on Dutch TV show Van Oekel's Discohoek: Even by his standards, it was weird In which Captain Beefheart interrupts another singer, lip-syncs badly, is awarded a trophy, and pays tribute to The Beatles Louder · Jul 11, 2024
"The impact and influence of music artists like The Beatles, Oasis and others from the north of England have had on the music industry in decades past is redoubtable" – so why are young northern musicians less supported than the rest of the UK? A new report highlights a north / south divide emerging MusicRadar · Jul 10, 2024
“Prog? There was a university pretentiousness about it. People asked what we did and I’d say, ‘10cc music’”: However you describe it, The Original Soundtrack is a progressive landmark Their third album, complete with I’m Not In Love, moved away from three-minute singles and embraced opera and concept pop. Did it also inspire Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody? Louder · Jul 1, 2024
Revival 69: John & Yoko save a festival Ron Chapman's film examines the Toronto concert where Lennon performed before announcing the Beatles' disbandment Salon · Jun 28, 2024
Away from the crowds, rare backstage footage shows Amy Winehouse covering a classic Beatles song at Glastonbury 2004 The then 20-year-old star performed a rearranged version of All My Loving in the year that she shared the bill with Paul McCartney MusicRadar · Jun 28, 2024
What connects, Apple, The Beatles, and one of the BBC’s most viral bloopers of all time? Apple’s infamous legal battle against Apple Records led to one of the greatest blunders in the BBC’s history. Here’s why. iMore · Jun 25, 2024
MusicRadar · Jun 25, 2024 “The Beatles are my biggest inspiration and the main thing that was in my ears when I was a child, and this song is just incredible”: Billie Eilish names the Beatles song she wishes she’d written Billie Eilish also praises brother Finneas as she discusses the making of Lunch
Guitar World · Jun 25, 2024 “This guy was just up on stage playing guitar behind his neck and now he’s barely even talking to me”: Junior Marvin saw Jimi Hendrix blow away the Beatles at a London club show – but says the guitar hero was too shy to speak to him The Bob Marley and The Wailers guitarist says Hendrix was “like two different people” on and offstage
The Conversation · Jun 21, 2024 What the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame Fifty years ago, scientists discovered a nearly complete fossilized skull and hundreds of pieces of bone of a 3.2-million-year-old female specimen of the genus Australopithecus afarensis, often described as “the mother of us all.” During a celebration following her discovery, she was named “Lucy,” after the Beatles song “Lucy in…
Salon · Jun 19, 2024 Mike Campbell: A good song will age well The Dirty Knobs guitarist teams up with Chris Stapleton, Lucinda Williams & Graham Nash: "It was like Christmas"
MusicRadar · Jun 19, 2024 7 reasons every creative needs an audio interface From recording band demos, to streaming and session work, if you want to capture quality audio, an interface is absolutely essential
The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2024 Vinyl came back from the dead – and so did the bootleggers: inside the booming business of knock-off records As LP sales boom in the UK, so has the illegal trade in poor-quality fakes. But the record detectives are fighting back
Salon · Jun 14, 2024 Wings' pristine "One Hand Clapping" Enjoy 21st century production on the 1974 project where the real story exists in the tracks themselves
Salon · Jun 13, 2024 Jamie & Leonard Bernstein's Beatlemania On "Everything Fab Four," the author discusses being John and Yoko's neighbor and learning Beatles music theory
MusicRadar · Jun 12, 2024 "It's very hard for people to understand how monolithic it was, looking at it today. But it was absolutely earthshaking": Was 9 February 1964 the most important day in rock 'n' roll history? "It was kind of like an alien invasion"
Guitar World · Jun 11, 2024 “He was already in Animals As Leaders – but there we were, playing the Beatles in a bar. I’d be like, ‘What the hell is happening?’” Joshua De La Victoria has gone from prog awakening to one of the genre’s brightest guitar talents A pub show put the fast-rising guitarist on the road to progressive greatness, but as he tells GW, he’s kept his pop roots, too...
Guitar World · Jun 10, 2024 The Beatles were pop trailblazers and studio experimentalists, but the Fab Four also had a heavier side – and it laid the groundwork for the rock revolution that followed This lesson takes you into the three guitar styles of John Lennon, George Harrison and Paul McCartney, from electric 12-string work to slide solos