Abbey Road Crowds gather to mark 50th anniversary of the Beatles' Abbey Road album photoReuters - By Paul SandleLONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds of people gathered at the world's most famous zebra crossing on Thursday to mark the 50th anniversary of the day the Beatles created one of the best-known album covers in music
Bob Dylan Nashville SkylineRolling Stone - Paul Nelson Bob Dylan’s ninth album poses fewer mysteries and yet, paradoxically, offers greater rewards than any of his previous work. Its only difficulties …
Ringo Starr Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Bandnashvillescene.com Last month, Paul McCartney ended his Freshen Up Tour with a catalog-spanning 38-song performance at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium. The more than 50,000 …
Charles Mingus Sixty Years Later Theon Cross on Charles Mingus' classic, 'Mingus Ah Um' - Supreme Standardssupremestandards.com Sixty years after its release, broadcaster and writer Ben Noble reflects on the evergreen power of Charles Mingus’ ‘Mingus Ah Um’, with the help of …
Metropolitan Museum of Art Play it Loud: Instruments of Rock and Roll at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Citygildshire.com - Ceara Rossetti The Beatles Set at the Play it Loud: Instruments of Rock and Roll Expo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (Photo: Ceara Rossetti) Play …
Abbey Road ‘Abbey Road’ Vs. ‘Let It Be’: Which Was the Beatles’ Last Album?Rolling Stone - Rob Sheffield So what’s the final Beatles album? Abbey Road or Let It Be? If you’re a Beatles fan, you’ve had at least one chemically-assisted late-night argument …
Classic Rock Which Bonus Tracks Will Be Part of the Beatles' 'Abbey Road' Box?ultimateclassicrock.com - Nick DeRiso A deeper look at the album's most intriguing leftovers.Continue reading…
Woodstock Music Festival Woodstock ’69: PhotosRolling Stone - Griffin Lotz Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, and Pete Townshend perform at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, New York. Festivalgoers walk along the …
Music Death Of The 60s: The Dream Was Over, But The Music Lives Onudiscovermusic.com - Paul McGuinness The summer of 1969 saw the world united in hope. By the end of the year, however, the death of the 60s brought with it the end of the hippie dream of …
Woodstock Music Festival Woodstock Remembered: John Sebastian on the Sun, Fun and Tie-DyeRolling Stone - John Sebastian I wasn’t scheduled to perform, but I was there from the beginning. There was a casualness about the format there that has never existed again. I just …
Music An Immortal Reflection Of Bessie Smith, In Feeling And FormNPR - Emily LordiIn 1974, the artist Romare Bearden made a collage with a woman at its center. One arm bent above her head, yellow flowers in her hair to match her skirt and heels, she casually yet clearly commands an
Woodstock Music Festival Woodstock Remembered: Mountain Guitarist Leslie West on Playing the FestRolling Stone - Leslie West Woodstock was just our third job, and it was quite a thrill. Mountain got on the show because our booking agent also handled Jimi Hendrix. I remember …
Carlos Santana How Santana Hallucinated Through One of Woodstock’s Best Sets (His Own)The New York Times - By ROB TANNENBAUM“Every Woodstock musician I’ve talked to, when asked what performances they liked, immediately cites Santana as an obvious mega-highlight,” said Andy Zax, the co-producer of “Woodstock — Back to the Garden:
Play buttonMusic Watch the Rolling Stones Play ‘Harlem Shuffle’ for First Time in 29 YearsRolling Stone - Andy Greene The Rolling Stones were four songs into their show at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on Monday night when Mick Jagger addressed the crowd. “Has anyone …
Music How Bessie Smith Influenced A Century Of Popular MusicNPR - Maureen MahonSinger Bessie Smith's recording career lasted only 10 years, but during that time she created a body of work that helped shape the sound of the 20th century. Her first single, "Downhearted Blues" — written
Play buttonnew movie news D.A. Pennebaker Looks Back on ‘Monterey Pop’: The Lost InterviewRolling Stone - Kory Grow “It’s sort of strange,” D.A. Pennebaker said in 2017, about restoring Monterey Pop, his document of the Summer of Love’s most famous music festival. …
Mick Jagger Waitress Who Served The Rolling Stones At NJ Diner Says They Went Unnoticed | iHeartRadioiheart.com The waitress at Clifton, New Jersey's iconic Tick Tock Diner thought Mick Jagger looked familiar when he dropped by last week for breakfast with two …
Mick Jagger Up Close and Personal with the Rolling StonesVillage Voice - by Karen Durbin Two a.m. in a motel room in Wisconsin. The room is thick with dope and cigarette smoke. Peaple of various sexes crowd the room, among them the …
Play buttonDavid Crosby Roger McGuinn Shoots Down David Crosby’s Byrds Reunion Idea (Again)Rolling Stone - Andy Greene David Crosby urged his former Byrds bandmate Roger McGuinn to reunite the group over the weekend, asking the singer on Twitter, “Want to do a couple …
Roxy Music Roxy Music Frontman Bryan Ferry: 'I Feel More Appreciated Now'Forbes - Steve BaltinEnglish singer Bryan Ferry performs on stage at the Chicago Theater in Chicago Illinois, August 1, 2019. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images) In March of this year Bryan Ferry reunited with his longtime
Woodstock Music Festival Woodstock Remembered: Carlos Santana on the Spiritual Vibe of the FestRolling Stone - Carlos Santana It was a bit scary to go out there and plug into this ocean of hair, teeth, eyes, and arms. It was incredible. I’ll never forget the way the music …
Mick Jagger The Magnificent Rolling StonesVillage Voice - by The Voice Archives The Stones were magnificent. Everybody thought so. Thank Christ. Report on the Stones ploughing through their own multi-multi-million dollar Suez …
Play buttonDavid Bowie Why Stevie Ray Vaughan Turned Down a David Bowie TourRolling Stone - Andy Aledort Alan Paul and Andy Aledort’s new book, Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan — out August 13th — chronicles the life of the legendary …
Play buttonJanis Joplin Rob Sheffield: Pennebaker, ‘Monterey Pop’ and the ‘Wow’ That Changed the WorldRolling Stone - Rob Sheffield D.A. Pennebaker, the master documentary filmmaker who just passed away at the age of 94, specialized in capturing rock & roll moments on film before …
Woodstock Music Festival Woodstock Remembered: David Fricke on Minor Epiphanies and Momentary BummersRolling Stone - David Fricke Whenever someone asks me what it was like to be at Woodstock, the first thing that comes to mind is not Hendrix’s “Star-Spangled Banner,” Country …
David Bowie How Queen and David Bowie Put Themselves 'Under Pressure'ultimateclassicrock.com - Martin Kielty Brian May recalls challenges of collaborative track where Bowie finally took control.Continue reading…
Paul McCartney Best Paul McCartney Collaborations: 11 Surprising Team-Upsudiscovermusic.com - Paul McGuinness If Paul McCartney had only ever written songs with John Lennon, that would have been enough. The music they created as part of The Beatles continues to …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoRingo Starr 25 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘A Hard Day’s Night’flavorwire.com - Flavorwire The Beatles took America by storm during their first visit to the U.S. in 1964. Just one month after their historic television appearance on The Ed …
Woodstock 50 The Woodstock tapes, revealedCBS News A new CD box set, "Woodstock 50: Back to the Garden," captures virtually every minute of audio from the 1969 music festival, from the performers to …
Play buttonnew movie news D.A. Pennebaker, Legendary Documentarian, Dead at 94Rolling Stone - Tim Grierson D.A. Pennebaker, a champion of the cinéma-vérité approach to documentary, which emphasized intimate portraits of its subjects, died Thursday from …
