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‘Big Boys Bickering’: Paul McCartney’s profanity-laden political attack
A look at Paul McCartney and his history of writing political music, despite what his public reputation suggests, via a look at his song 'Big Boys Bickering'.
What is the easiest classic guitar solo to play?
The guitar solo is almost expected in every classic rock song, but there are some great tunes that only need the bare essentials. Read more here.
The movie Guillermo del Toro knew was doomed: “I understand why it happened”
The highest-grossing film of his career remains Pacific Rim, which looked on course to flop after underperforming in the United States until it turned out to be a hit in China, which contributed over ...
Did The Beatles rip themselves off with ‘Let It Be’
The Beatles wrote a great deal of songs, so should it really come as a surprise that these two songs sound quite similar?
The real life ‘Dude’ who inspired ‘The Big Lebowski’
When the Coen Brothers sat down to write 'The Big Lebowski,' they had a specific inspiration in mind for 'The Dude.' ...
“A humble song”: how ‘Jolene’ revolutionised music’s view of femininity
It almost goes without saying that this was, of course, ‘Jolene’, Parton’s 1973 monster hit that represented a changing of the tides not just in the trajectory of her own career, but in shaking up the ...
The only song Woody Harrelson would listen to for the rest of his life: “That’s a good one”
Harrelson has also popped up in videos for U2’s ‘Song for Someone’, Willie Nelson’s ‘You Don’t Think I’m Funny Anymore’ and Johnny Cash’s ‘God’s Gonna Cut You Down’, so he’s been hanging around the ...
Macabre Melodies: Linda Ronstadt’s dinner with a member of the Manson Family
Linda Ronstadt may have seen many different strange occurrences in rock and roll, but she took a turn to the macabre on an innocent dinner date.
In defence of Rod Stewart’s ‘Do Ya Think I’m Sexy’
Stewart has arguably never truly been cool, especially in comparison to his counterparts of this era. But amidst the bashing and the back-and-forth battle of whether or not his career as a whole holds ...
‘Drive’: The Cars anthem that rang the alarm on a humanitarian crisis
In a world so often beset with various humanitarian crises, it’s easy to become numb to the pain and heartbreak of it all when you feel so far removed. Although those struggles were being platformed ...
The actor who cost Mel Brooks a fortune: “I ruined so many takes he was in”
That was usually the case with Mel Brooks, until he met one actor who ended up costing him a fortune. Already an experienced comic before he made his feature-length directorial debut on The Producers ...
“We were shocked”: the two artists David Crosby said destroyed minds
David Crosby already had a common understanding of rock and roll, but he knew that some people could put people's minds in a ...