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When you’re a rock star you’re not so picky about where your inspiration comes from. In fact, any artist worth their weight in gold will take a spark of influence…
‘The Goddess’: The forgotten Marilyn Monroe biopic released before her death
- July 6, 2025
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Amy Winehouse, Dido, and the background music “to death”
- July 6, 2025
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When Elvis Presley’s hips caused a cultural revolution
- July 6, 2025
When Elvis Presley first appeared on CBS in 1956, pop culture had barely gotten off the ground. Its subsequent ascent, however, was akin to Conchord. This meteoric culture rise was,…
How Queen and Freddie Mercury threw the wildest album release party of all time
- July 6, 2025
It is an oddity in the rock ‘n’ roll annuls that Queen, the band who are now viewed as one of the most savoury household musical names since Bread thanks…
Which Beatles song did John Lennon play live the most?
- July 6, 2025
There’s a little white lie that often crops up in the annals of rock history: The Beatles weren’t really a live band. Given that they stopped touring in 1966, the…
The greatest debut rock album of all time: ‘Led Zeppelin’
- July 6, 2025
Today marks the 52nd anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s groundbreaking eponymous debut album, released in 1969. Led Zeppelin’s front album artwork was designed by George Hardie and depicts a picture of…
The Led Zeppelin album Jimmy Page said was most difficult: “We didn’t have anything”
- July 6, 2025
It can feel like a small miracle for any band once a record is done. People can spend that time slaving away and trying to find the perfect guitar sound…
“Laughed at by the Gods”: the most heartbreakingly real Amy Winehouse lyric
- July 3, 2025
You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who wasn’t instantly stunned the second Amy Winehouse ever opened her mouth to sing. Her voice transplanted from a whole other era, oozing…
The isolated drums for Led Zeppelin’s ‘Whole Lotta Love’ are a window to John Bonham’s power
- July 2, 2025
Like many flippant schoolkids, we spent far too much time here in the Far Out offices proposing unlikely and unholy musical competitions. For example, who would win in a Sex…
Watch Led Zeppelin’s powerful performance of ‘Communication Breakdown’ on their TV debut
- July 2, 2025
We’re dipping into the Far Out Magazine vault to look back at Led Zeppelin’s fiery TV debut and their show-stopping performance of ‘Communication Breakdown’. It was the first song Robert…
Revisit the moment Led Zeppelin performed their final show on British soil, 1979
- July 2, 2025
Led Zeppelin performed their final show with the late great John Bonham on 11th August 1979, a time when they played live at the historic Knebworth Park in Hertfordshire and,…
The moment Led Zeppelin made their live debut
- July 2, 2025
What Led Zeppelin created during their reign of terror was truly remarkable, Jimmy Page building on the name he had already established thanks to his extraordinary work in The Yardbirds.…
Hear the thunderous isolated drums of John Bonham on Led Zeppelin’s ‘Ramble On’
- July 2, 2025
If you went to the dictionary and looked up ‘rock drummer’ chances are there would be a picture of Led Zeppelin’s mammoth percussionist John Bonham pleasantly staring back at you…
Listen to a rare 1970 recording of Led Zeppelin song ‘No Quarter’
- July 2, 2025
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Revisiting the moment that Jimmy Page and Robert Plant reunited Led Zeppelin in Marrakech, 1994
- July 2, 2025
The year of 1994 would mark the first time that Robert Plant and Jimmy Page would reunite on a new musical project together since the split of Led Zeppelin which,…
Listen to John Bonham’s thumping isolated drums on Led Zeppelin’s ‘When The Levee Breaks’
- July 2, 2025
It is an undeniable fact that John Bonham is one of, if not the, best drummer of all time and if there was still any doubt over this question then…
When Led Zeppelin beat The Beatles: John Bonham and Robert Plant react to ‘Number One Group’ acclaim in 1970
- July 2, 2025
A question as old as time remains the biggest debate in rock music: who is the better group out of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin or The Rolling Stones? There is…
Amy Winehouse, Dido, and the background music “to death”
- July 6, 2025
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Which Beatles song did John Lennon play live the most?
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