How an unfashionable band from the UK defied the critics to become the biggest British hard rock stars of the mid-2000s ...
"It's a moment where people open their ears as we did when we were kids and listened to the Rolling Stones and the Eagles." ...
“My ego was telling me: These aliens have programmed you to be a rock star!” he recalled. “So I used it as a tool to write songs about outer space and the future, songs like Crack In The World and ...
Deep in the Colombian Amazon, a team of scholars worked with Indigenous elders to interpret a 12-mile-long stretch of 11,000-year-old rock art. Researchers now believe that the art tells a ...
Yet, my reading and life experience over time have created a slow process of realizing I barely exist in that history—that the so-called “progressive” history of New Hollywood and the rock ...
“Nobody knew what the kid looked like,” says his friend Lukather. “He had a really tasty album with no pictures, and he won all these awards, then people expected John Travolta in his prime or ...
Opening track Borrowed Town, written on a Tube ride to meet The Who's Pete Townshend, has the feel of a Paul Weller solo ballad ... adopts a classic soft-rock approach on the strongest taster ...
Here’s a toast to Marianne Faithfull, a true rock & roll legend ... t Forget Me,” a totally obscure 1974 Harry Nilsson piano ballad that she single-handedly turned into a cult classic ...
Because “The Ballad of Wallis Island” wants to give some time alone to Herb and Nell, Michael feels a little absent from the story at times. But as writers, Basden and Key avoid toothless ...
Still, we gave the kid an iPhone, and despite being scared as hell about what we’ve unleashed, I’m glad we did it. The problem with texting and social media is that the technology opened a new ...
While James Griffiths’ “The Ballad of Wallis Island” is built on ... When the nearly washed-up rock star quite literally washes up on Wallis Island — “Isn’t there a harbor?,” ...
The snap, crackle and pop of vinyl marks the start of The Ballad of Wallis Island, a music-themed rom-com that’s half-whimsical com and half-unrequited rom. In the absence of a new film by John ...