Damon Albarn makes surprising admission about Blur’s second Wembley gig
“I didn’t want to do another gig.”
Author: Ben Forrest Archives: 04/2024
The first punk songs to reach the singles chart
Giving the revolutionary sounds a mainstream appeal.
Musical Meditations: understanding Pauline Oliveros’ radical concept of ‘Deep Listening’
Reinventing perceptions of sound.
The only Jefferson Airplane song about drugs, according to Grace Slick
“We were not saying ‘why don’t you guys all go out and take drugs?’”
The Jam song that Paul Weller labelled “a piss-take”
“The whole song is a comment or piss-take, whatever way you look at it.”
The only three albums Chrissie Hynde carried from America when she left home
The records that birthed a punk icon.
The punk band Henry Rollins compared to The Beatles: “Those guys could really play!”
“I mean those guys could really play.”
“Everyman’s music for everyman”: the musician Phil Collins compared to Chuck Berry
“I like what he stands for.”
The band Jimmy Page called “absolutely phenomenal”
“It was really an arts lab, as opposed to pop music.”