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In the spring of 1971, Rod Stewart sat down with acoustic guitarist Martin Quittenton in a rented room and finished a song in less than half an hour. It was a quiet, melancholy ballad about a girl he had known and lost — the kind of song that almost didn’t sound like Rod Stewart at … Read more

It was 1986, the last night of Queen’s Magic Tour in Knebworth, England — a show that would draw nearly 200,000 people and quietly become the largest outdoor concert in British history. What almost nobody knew that night was that Freddie Mercury, already sensing what his body was beginning to tell him, had decided this … Read more

Few moments in rock history capture the power of musical collaboration quite like the legendary performance of “My Back Pages” at Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration, better known as Bobfest, held at Madison Square Garden on October 16, 1992. The star-studded event celebrated three decades of Bob Dylan’s groundbreaking influence on music and songwriting. … Read more

Fans around the world have received a hopeful update on legendary Welsh singer-songwriter Bonnie Tyler after weeks of concern over her health. Tyler, 74, has emerged from a medically induced coma but remains in intensive care in Portugal, according to a statement released by her family and management team. The update comes five weeks after … Read more

The Gallagher brothers have conducted their relationship in public for thirty years. This is not a choice exactly — it is the consequence of a specific temperament meeting a specific level of fame. Both Noel and Liam Gallagher are constitutionally incapable of the privacy that would be required to keep their relationship out of the … Read more

There is a relationship at the center of Elvis Presley’s life that the mythology of his career has never fully contained because it belongs to a register that mythology cannot reach. Not the manager relationship with Colonel Tom Parker, not the romantic relationships that the tabloids tracked across decades, not the friendship with the Memphis … Read more

The story of “Bohemian Rhapsody” as it is usually told begins with Freddie Mercury and ends with the song’s commercial triumph — a narrative arc that smooths over the period in between, the period of doubt and resistance and the specific institutional hostility of a music industry that did not understand what it was hearing … Read more

The Ozzy Osbourne that the world received is a specific and carefully constructed thing. The Prince of Darkness. The bat-biter. The man who bit the head off a dove in a record label meeting and off a bat onstage in Des Moines. The television persona of The Osbournes who shuffled through his own house in … Read more

There is a paradox at the center of Fleetwood Mac that their entire career has been built upon without ever fully resolving. The music they make is music about the specific damage that the people making it have done to each other. The songs on Rumours — which remains one of the best-selling albums in … Read more

Elton John and John Lennon had a friendship that the public record has only partially captured. The most visible evidence of it is musical — the 1974 Madison Square Garden concert where Lennon appeared onstage with Elton following through on a bet made in the recording studio, a bet that produced “Whatever Gets You Through … Read more