It was a surreal scene, even for Elton John at the height of his camp era: The singer on a soundstage in England, made to
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The guitarist wasn’t watching, but the performance quickly made its way to him. “That [audition] rippled around the world,” May said at a 2014 press
Soundgarden finally hit on something with 1994’s Superunknown. It helped that the rest of the nation finally caught up with their sludgy mix of Seattle
“Funkadelic transcends the ceremony and ritual of religion and goes right to the core: Sometimes you have to lose your mind to gain your soul,”
As Slipknot gathered in 2003 to begin work on what would be their third album, they were surrounded by speculation as to whether they had
John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, despite being controversial enough to earn an X-rating on its release
Ridley Scott has said that he wanted his Alien movies to “scare the shit out of people,” so naturally, he decided the best place to start
Elton John’s flamboyance was always balanced out by Bernie Taupin’s more reserved tendencies. That’s one reason why they made such a perfect songwriting team. Still,
Crosby, Stills and Nash were rock music’s first true supergroup, the near-perfect distillation of the vibrant Southern California folk-country-rock sound of the late-’60s. Their self-titled
George Martin used to quibble over whether “The Ballad of John and Yoko” was even a Beatles song. What’s certain, however, is this: Without it,