Music

David Bowie and Mick Jagger had one of rock’s great friendships — a complicated, competitive, admiring, and occasionally brutal relationship between two men who each privately believed the other was doing it slightly wrong. Friends from the 1970s who knew both men have described their dynamic as “two chess players who genuinely liked each other … Read more

Jimmy Page is one of the most interviewed rock musicians in history, and he is also one of the most careful. Over fifty years of conversations with journalists, biographers, and documentarians, Page has developed a precise and almost forensic sense of what he will and will not say. There are five Led Zeppelin recordings he … Read more

By 1979, Ozzy Osbourne had been fired from Black Sabbath and was, by his own later admission, in a very dark place. He had money, but no direction. He had a name, but no band. His manager and future wife Sharon Arden had arranged a series of auditions for a new backing group, and Ozzy … Read more

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

There was a time when some critics claimed Taylor Swift had reached the peak of her career. After years of dominating country and pop music, she faced public backlash, media scrutiny, and predictions that her success was fading. Yet what happened next became one of the most remarkable comebacks in modern music history. 2016: The … Read more

Music fans in Chicago witnessed an unforgettable moment when legendary singer Barbra Streisand surprised the audience by inviting Ariana Grande onstage for a special performance of the classic 1979 hit No More Tears (Enough Is Enough). The crowd erupted with excitement as Grande appeared beside Streisand. The young pop superstar looked genuinely overwhelmed by the … Read more

In 2014, Taylor Swift was in the middle of one of the biggest transitions of her career. After years as a country music star, she was preparing to fully embrace pop music with her album 1989. Many fans believed her country music days were coming to an end. However, before making the complete switch, Swift … Read more