What is the best Paul McCartney solo in The Beatles?
Part of the appeal of any great rock and roll band is knowing when to play and when not to. Although it might be fun to hog the spotlight and…
The female vocalist Elvis Presley requested for ‘Suspicious Minds’
He may have been known as ‘The King’ of rock n’ roll to a certain generation, but there are still sides to Elvis Presley that don’t get nearly enough credit,…
‘Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain’: the last song Elvis Presley sang before he died
When Elvis Presley burst into the studio, onto the stage, and into the world in 1954 with his cover of the Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup song, ‘That’s All Right’, he…
Why did Elvis Presley change his band?
It’s very easy to discuss all the reasons why Elvis Presley became so revolutionary. After all, he changed the game for rock ‘n’ roll in unimaginable ways, setting the standard…
Two tribes go to war: When The Kinks battled The Beatles in Bournemouth, 1964
England’s shoreline has witnessed its fair share of battles and conflict over the centuries, as emerging regimes, nations, and world leaders attempt to invade this sceptred isle. During the 1960s,…
The artists too drunk to work with Pink Floyd: “They didn’t give a shit”
There’s a fine line between genius and insanity in music. Particularly during the crossover of the 1960s and the 1970s, when creativity was at it’s loosest and hedonism at it’s…
The Beatles and the Civil Rights Movement: How the Fab Four fought racial segregation in 1964
It’s distressing and difficult to reconcile that even as recently as the 1960s, audiences in the US and the UK remained racially segregated. While the UK never officially enforced segregation,…
Why did The Beatles break up?
The Beatles played their first concert on a warm August evening at Liverpool’s Jacaranda Club in 1960. They officially broke up just under ten years later when, on April 10th,…
The Beatles song that parodied their heroes: “They didn’t even put our name on the record”
It’s not hard to find traces of other artists in the music of The Beatles. For every innovation they put to tape, there’s always a Carl Perkins guitar lick or…
The singer Elvis Presley thought had “the perfect voice”
Emerging as the biggest name in the 1950s rock ‘n’ roll scene, Elvis Presley became one of the first-ever globalised superstars. He awakened a new potential for what we now…