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Five Bob Dylan Concerts Where the Audience Left Furious — That Are Now Considered the Greatest Performances of His Career

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Bob Dylan has spent sixty years in a state of conflict with his audience’s expectations. Not accidentally — not as the byproduct of restlessness or inconsistency. Deliberately. With the specific intention of someone who has decided that the audience’s comfort with a version of him is a problem to be solved rather than a condition … Read more

The Night Ozzy Osbourne Called Tony Iommi from a Rehabilitation Center — And What Tony Said That Nobody Expected

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The relationship between Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi is one of the strangest and most durable partnerships in rock history. Strange because by any conventional measure it should not have survived. The number of times Ozzy’s chaos — the addictions, the behavior, the specific form of self-destruction that he has navigated in public for fifty … Read more

The Morning Paul McCartney Woke Up With “Let It Be” Fully Formed in His Head — And Spent Six Hours Convinced It Was Someone Else’s Song

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The experience Paul McCartney describes about the composition of “Let It Be” is one of the most extraordinary accounts of musical creativity in the documented history of songwriting. It is also, depending on how you receive it, either the most humbling or the most inspiring thing a songwriter has ever reported about their own work. … Read more

Five Mick Jagger Performances So Extraordinary That Even Keith Richards Stood in the Wings and Stared

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Keith Richards has made a career of performing indifference to things that should produce awe. It is part of the persona — the weathered, seen-everything cool of someone who has been at the center of one of the most extraordinary rock careers in history and has developed the specific equanimity of someone for whom extraordinary … Read more

The Private Conversation Between Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash That Changed Country Music Forever — And Neither Man Ever Fully Described

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The Million Dollar Quartet session of December 4th, 1956 at Sun Studio is famous. Elvis, Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis — an accidental convergence that Sam Phillips was smart enough to record. The photographs exist. The tape exists. The cultural mythology of that afternoon has been enormous and well-documented. What is less documented is … Read more

The Guitar Solo Jimmy Page Played That Made Robert Plant Drop to His Knees in the Middle of Recording — And Refuse to Stand Up Until It Was Finished

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There is a phenomenon that musicians describe with remarkable consistency when they talk about encountering greatness at close range. A physical response. Something that happens in the body before the mind has processed what the ears are receiving. A shift in the relationship between the person listening and the space they are occupying. The music … Read more

Rush shook up the setlist at their second Kia Forum show, delivering a full performance of the legendary “2112” suite and giving fans a night to remember.

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Rush continued their triumphant Fifty Something Tour with a second sold-out performance at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum on Tuesday, June 9, treating fans to one of the most remarkable setlists of their modern era. After launching the tour in spectacular fashion on Sunday, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson—joined by touring drummer Anika Nilles and keyboardist … Read more

The Three Words John Lennon Said to Yoko Ono Every Morning for the Last Five Years of His Life — That She Has Never Stopped Hearing

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The public version of John Lennon and Yoko Ono is one of the most contested narratives in popular culture. Contested by people who blamed her for the Beatles’ breakup — a blame that was never fully fair and has become less fair with each passing decade of historical reassessment. Contested by people who found the … Read more