(Credit: Alamy) Music The Pink Floyd song Roger Waters wrote as a critique of the music business Joe Taysom @josephtaysom Wed 27th Apr 2022 16.15 BST Roger Waters has become increasingly disenfranchised by the music industry in recent years. However, his discontent with the business is no new thing, and…
(Credit: Far Out / Alamy / Wikimedia) Music The mystery song Jimi Hendrix dedicated to a pre-fame Stevie Nicks Sam Kemp @SamWKemp Tue 26th Apr 2022 17.30 BST Jimi Hendrix was truly one in a million. To this day, I struggle to think of a single artist more unique, raw…
(Credit: Blue Jay Way) Music The Beatles song that was rejected for the ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ film Tyler Golsen @TylerGolsen Tue 26th Apr 2022 14.00 BST As The Beatles were compiling material for their first film A Hard Day’s Night, director Dick Lester was starting to plot out the…
(Credit: Alamy) Music The Story Behind The Song: How Peter Gabriel returned to his soul roots with 'Sledgehammer' Eoghan Lyng Mon 25th Apr 2022 23.00 BST With Genesis, vocalist Peter Gabriel proved he could write pastoral anthems, but as a solo artist, he was determined to widen his antenna to…
(Credit: Press) Music The song that inspired the Steely Dan classic ‘Rikki Don’t Lose that Number’ Tom Taylor @TomTaylorFO Mon 25th Apr 2022 13.00 BST Steely Dan did away with the term aficionado and hid jazz in plain popified sight for all us sinners uninitiated in the ways of augmented…
(Credit: Alamy) Music Listen to the enchanting isolated vocals of Ella Fitzgerald on 'Summertime Mick McStarkey Mon 25th Apr 2022 08.00 BST The late Ella Fitzgerald wasn’t hailed as ‘The First Lady of Song’, for nothing. The Virginia native was one of the best singers to have ever graced the…
Credit: Carl Lender Music When Jerry Garcia covered The Beatles Tyler Golsen @TylerGolsen Sun 24th Apr 2022 14.30 BST Jerry Garcia had an interesting relationship with The Beatles. Although he was quick to cover contemporaries like Motown and The Rolling Stones, both with the Grateful Dead and in his solo…
(Credit: Alamy) Music The John Lennon track that radio stations refused to play Jamie Kahn @notmyyaztattoo Sun 24th Apr 2022 08.12 BST John Lennon is one of the most prolific songwriters of his generation, both as a member of The Beatles and as a solo artist later on in his…
(Credit: Alamy) Music John Lennon had never experienced love when writing one of The Beatles' biggest hits Eoghan Lyng Sat 23rd Apr 2022 15.00 BST John Lennon was a passionate man. It’s hard to throw yourself into your work with the verve he did if it lacked integrity or passion,…
(Credit: Alamy) Music How Ramones recorded their iconic debut album Mick McStarkey Sat 23rd Apr 2022 12.00 BST New York punks Ramones are one of the most influential outfits of all time. One of the first actual punk bands, they set a precedent for all the punk that followed in…