Every band starts somewhere. Whether they are a contestant on a hit show like Britain’s Got Talent or if they did it touring in a beat-up van and had to play in a dingy club where five people are in the audience or an open-mic night where they get heckled off the stage. Sometimes… Continue reading 78: A Guitar Virtuoso, a Pop Boyband, and Unforgiving Fans
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67: Religion, Prime Time, and Fighting The Real Enemy
Religion and modern music have always had a rocky relationship. When the Rock and Roll era started it was classed as the devil’s music. Outrage was caused when John Lennon was quoted as saying that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus (although they probably were). In the late 1980s members of the Scandinavian Death Metal… Continue reading 67: Religion, Prime Time, and Fighting The Real Enemy
59: The First Amendment, Sampling, and Roy Orbison
The most diverse part of a song between fans and musicians is the lyrics. Fans love to decode lyrics from artists, what does line x mean? What is line y about? But the songwriter usually puts them in just as a throwaway thing with nothing deeper than it fits in with the melody. Okay, yeah… Continue reading 59: The First Amendment, Sampling, and Roy Orbison
6: A Former Child Star, A Reinvention, and a Jagged Little Pill
Some albums have moderate success. Some albums get multi-million selling success. But there is an album that comes along once in a generation that is a monster. Everyone has a copy, and the singles are always playing on the radio, you cannot get away from them. This happened to a young then-unknown pop star called… Continue reading 6: A Former Child Star, A Reinvention, and a Jagged Little Pill