“This is where we had to pull out our good stuff. And we did”: Beggars Banquet – the album that made the Rolling Stones

In some ways, Sympathy For The Devil overshadows the rest of the album, so ingrained has it become with the Stones' legend.
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The Doors at 60: John Densmore Looks Back

Reflecting on The Doors' legacy, John Densmore discusses their poetic sound, early gigs, and the re-release of 'When You’re ...
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“I used to accommodate him. I'd isolate him, put him in a booth and not record him. The others, particularly Mick and Keith, would say 'Just tell him to get the hell out ...

"I don't think he had a carefully worked-out policy against Vietnam; I mean, he had a moral outrage against the war and that was about it." Whatever, it covered the Stones with a patina of radical ...
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Today in Music History for Dec. 19: In 1808, Horatius Bonar, Scottish clergyman, poet and hymn writer, was born. He authored several missionary biographies and penned over 600 hymns, including "I ...

60 Years Ago, Bob Dylan Released the Greatest Rock Song Ever Written From His Album 'Highway 61 Revisited'

Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone debuted 60 years ago on Highway 61 Revisited and is still hailed as the greatest rock song ...

This U2 Song Became the First iTunes No. 1 — and Marked a Major Turning Point for the Band

U2 became the first band to score an iTunes No. 1 song and the moment reshaped their legacy and sparked a new chapter in ...

“I started singing this melody and saying that line, ‘I want to be yours…’”: The story of Arctic Monkeys’ biggest song

Closing the album is an atmospheric interpretation of I Wanna Be Yours, written by English ‘punk poet' John Cooper Clarke – a ...