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30 Side By Side Shots Of Iconic Locations And The Legends Who Made Them Famous Photos By Steve Birnbaum

Steve Birnbaum, the creator of The Band Was Here, has learned the art of blending history with the present moment. The post 30 Side By Side Shots Of Iconic Locations And The Legends Who Made Them Famous Photos By Steve Birnbaum first appeared on Bored Panda.

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"It was crazed, almost Charles Manson–like." Before he started Def Jam, and produced everyone from Slayer to Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin played guitar in a noise-rock band called Hose, and recorded one of the worst Led Zeppelin covers ever committed to vinyl

Now one of the most powerful and influential men in the music industry, once upon a time super-producer Rick Rubin was just another punk rock guitarist in a terrible band

Metal Hammer

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: ‘I wrote a song that made my legs turn to jelly’

INTERVIEW: Laura Barton talks to Will Oldham about recording with some of his heroes, how he writes for his alter ego, and why a song about gun deaths made his legs turn to jelly

The Independent UK

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"He was the first time I'd ever seen the potential of music to be evil": From Oz punk to Detroit blues, Nick Cave names his Desert Island Discs

Nick Cave chose eight favourite songs on the long-running BBC Radio show

Louder

Trace Cyrus claims his father Billy Ray has threatened him with legal action: ‘You should be ashamed’

Tensions arose between family members after the ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ star’s controversial performance at Trump’s Liberty Ball

The Independent UK

Billy Bob Thornton 'never got over' nerves around Johnny Cash

Billy Bob Thornton has confessed he "never got over being nervous around" Johnny Cash even after the pair worked together and became friends.

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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: ‘With music, we give ourselves up. It’s when we’re allowed to be ourselves’

Revered American musician Will Oldham on recording his new album with some of Nashville’s finest, helping Johnny Cash sing I See a Darkness, and his dismay at US politics

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Billy Bob Thornton: ‘I didn’t want Johnny Cash to catch me looking in his fridge in my underpants’

The actor and musician answers your questions on his time as a roadie, being intimidated by rich people and falling off a horse for Steven Seagal

The Guardian - UK

Six covers of Bob Dylan songs that were better than the originals

He may never have strayed far from the minds of many music fans, but with his biopic A Complete Unknown hitting UK cinemas on January 17 and heartthrob Timothée Chalamet in the lead role, Bob Dylan may be about to gain an entirely new audience.

The Conversation

“I called Gene Simmons. He said: ‘How the hell did you get this number?!’ That was when I got the idea that we weren’t going to be best buddies”: Dee Snider’s wild tales of Robert Plant, Frank Zappa, Freddy Krueger and Kiss

From Johnny Cash and John Denver to Manowar and Henry Kissinger, former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider has mixed with them all

Louder

Unmasking the "contrarian" Bob Dylan

Filmmaker James Mangold spoke with Salon about the musician's not-so-oblique songwriting and the women in his life

Salon

Bob Dylan and the creative leap that transformed modern music

The Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” starring Timothée Chalamet, focuses on Dylan’s early 1960s transition from idiosyncratic singer of folk songs to internationally renowned singer-songwriter.

The Conversation

“I just loved mushrooms. My dad thought it was hysterical, so he had the freaking guitar made with a mushroom on it”: Rosanne Cash on learning the ‘Carter scratch’ technique, her most valued guitar gear –and recreating Johnny Cash’s iconic SJ-200

As the country icon is celebrated with a new exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame – she discusses her playing lineage, the two new Gibson signatures and sewing Johnny's Air Force patch to her strap

Guitar World

“Dick Boak called him and said Martin wanted to do a signature guitar for him. He paused and said, ‘I’ve been waiting for this phone call my whole life’”: The emotional moment Johnny Cash was offered his one-of-a-kind signature acoustic

Cash was a strong proponent of Martin guitars, playing a whole host of models – but his all-black D-42 signature model is the most iconic

Guitar World

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A Complete Unknown review: Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan biopic perfectly suits its subject

Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown offers a look into iconic musician Bob Dylan’s rise that rarely strikes a false chord.

The Guardian - UK

A Complete Unknown review – Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan is an electric revelation

James Mangold’s biopic follows the rise of the era-defining star with Chalamet brilliantly embodying his shapeshifting allure

The Independent UK

Timothée Chalamet tries his best in A Complete Unknown, a Bob Dylan biopic that plays too safe

3/5 There’s something a touch too uncrumpled about the ‘Dune’ star here, in a movie that lacks the required bite

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If you ever wanted to hear a whiskey-voiced Gene Simmons crooning a jazz standard, now's your chance

Gene Simmons' sultry cover of Stormy Weather comes from the soundtrack of the Dennis Quaid movie Reagan

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Evening Standard

Mark Steel joins Lauren Laverne for first Desert Island Discs since August

Steel picked The Clash’s Janie Jones, Into My Arms by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, and San Quentin by Johnny Cash among his records.

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25 Celebrity Secrets Exposed By Their Current And Former Employees

From Ryan Gosling walking on all fours to Alfred Hitchcock’s stalker tendencies, here are celebrity secrets that were spilled by their own staff. The post 25 Celebrity Secrets Exposed By Their Current And Former Employees first appeared on Bored Panda.

Woman & Home

From Madonna to Beyoncé, we uncover the most iconic songs that are actually remakes

Sometimes a cover song becomes so iconic people don't even realise it is a cover to begin with - and these examples are proof

Louder

"I played him the song first, and Johnny just looked at me like I was insane." How Rick Rubin convinced Johnny Cash to record his iconic cover of Nine Inch Nails' Hurt, and why Trent Reznor originally considered Cash's interpretation 'invasive"

Johnny Cash took some persuading before agreeing to Rick Rubin's idea that he should cover a Nine Inch Nails classic

Louder

"He sings like a man possessed, his expression undiminished by the ravages of time": Peter Perrett returns with what might just be his best-ever album

Only Ones singer Peter Perrett follows 2017's I Wanna Go With Dignity with an album of helpless romance and everyday reality

The Conversation

What is necro-branding? And what’s it got to do with Elvis, Princess Diana and Taylor Swift?

Do you own any memorabilia depicting Elvis, Princess Diana, David Bowie, Prince or Michael Jackson? Perhaps a beloved t-shirt, a favourite mug, a special keyring or a novelty plate? You might not know it, but you are participating in something known as “necro-branding”.

The Independent UK

Vinyl thrives at United Record Pressing as the nation's oldest record maker plays a familiar tune

In its 75 years in operation, United Record Pressing in Nashville has survived 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, Napster, iPods and streaming services

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