What does John Lennon say at the end of The Beatles song ‘Free as a Bird’?
In 1995, The Beatles stunned the world with a new single release, 25 years after the band had broken up and 15 years after the death of John Lennon. ‘Free…
The Beatles song that invented Jimi Hendrix, according to George Harrison
Every artist is going to want to try something that no one has ever done before. While it’s easy to just come up with a handful of chords and get…
What instruments does John Paul Jones play on the Led Zeppelin song ‘Kashmir’?
Led Zeppelin arguably peaked as a band during their frenetic first three years as a group, a time when they produced some of the most ferocious hard-rocking blues and metal…
Freddie Mercury once sniffed cocaine off a hermaphrodite dwarf’s head at a party
As far as headlines go “When Freddie Mercury sniffed cocaine off a hermaphrodite dwarf’s head at a party” is one of the more berserk that the world of music will…
Who played the organ on The Beatles song ‘Let It Be’?
The title track of the final Beatles album, Let It Be, is perhaps the closest the Fab Four ever came to religious music. John Lennon might have been famously anti-religious,…
The Queen album Freddie Mercury says England “totally ignored”
Anything that Queen put out was bound to find a major audience. Especially by the turn of the 1980s, there were few bands as big as Queen. A formidable group…
Rami Malek explains “gun-to-the-head moment” when he took Freddie Mercury role
Rami Malek has opened up about the moment he was offered the Freddie Mercury role in the upcoming Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. Out November 2nd, the film is set to…
Who is the “lady” from Led Zeppelin’s song ‘Stairway to Heaven’?
At least in the opinion of casual listeners and the cumulative swell of music critics down the years, ‘Stairway to Heaven’ is Led Zeppelin’s definitive contribution to music. The jewel…
‘Here Comes the Sun’: The song George Harrison was frightened to write
As a member of the band that changed the world of music indefinitely, you would assume that George Harrison had carte blanche to do whatever he wanted after leaving the…
Who was the original bass guitarist of The Beatles?
It’s hard to imagine a Beatles line-up without picturing Paul McCartney’s violin-shaped Hofner bass guitar upfront, but the truth is things weren’t always that way. In the band’s early days,…