Several Pink Floyd songs became classic rock staples. But not right away. How the band developed led to some trying times. Keyboard player Rick Wright never listened to his two embarrassing Pink Floyd songs after the band recorded them.
Pink Floyd’s Rick Wright said two of his songs were ‘sort of an embarrassment’
Pink Floyd parted ways with founding member, guitarist, and principal songwriter Syd Barrett in early 1968. His declining mental state made life hard on his bandmates. In concert, Barrett changed arrangements to songs on the fly, played the wrong chords (or none at all), and sang the wrong lyrics. So the rest of Pink Floyd — Wright, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and David Gilmour — decided to move on without him.
The only trouble was they sacked Barrett before finishing their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets.
So the remaining quartet picked up the slack and penned six of...
Pink Floyd’s Rick Wright said two of his songs were ‘sort of an embarrassment’
Pink Floyd parted ways with founding member, guitarist, and principal songwriter Syd Barrett in early 1968. His declining mental state made life hard on his bandmates. In concert, Barrett changed arrangements to songs on the fly, played the wrong chords (or none at all), and sang the wrong lyrics. So the rest of Pink Floyd — Wright, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and David Gilmour — decided to move on without him.
The only trouble was they sacked Barrett before finishing their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets.
So the remaining quartet picked up the slack and penned six of...
- 7/17/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The Beatles and Bob Dylan had a complicated relationship. They adored him and put him on a pedestal. John Lennon said Yoko Ono was as important to his career as Dylan and Paul McCartney combined, which was a massive compliment to all three of them. He respected their music, which contrasted how Dylan pranked The Beatles when he got them high for the first time.
Bob Dylan pranked The Beatles by pushing them out of their chairs the first time they got high
The Beatles routinely consumed pep pills to make it through their long nights performing in Hamburg, Germany. They were no strangers to drugs when they met Dylan and got high with him in late 1964. Yet the drugs they used in Germany were secretly acquired prescription pills, not illegal substances like marijuana that the singer gave to the band.
The troubadour turning the Fab Four onto pot might...
Bob Dylan pranked The Beatles by pushing them out of their chairs the first time they got high
The Beatles routinely consumed pep pills to make it through their long nights performing in Hamburg, Germany. They were no strangers to drugs when they met Dylan and got high with him in late 1964. Yet the drugs they used in Germany were secretly acquired prescription pills, not illegal substances like marijuana that the singer gave to the band.
The troubadour turning the Fab Four onto pot might...
- 6/30/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Bob Dylan had cemented his legacy as a folk music legend before he met The Beatles. The Fab Four already loved his music before their in-person encounter. John Lennon gave Dylan high praise/a backhanded compliment when he said Yoko Ono was as important a singer as the troubadour. They were musical icons of the 1960s, but The Beatles denied Dylan his best shot at having a No. 1 hit on the Billboard charts.
(l-r) George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon; Bob Dylan | Bettmann; Stanley Bielecki/Asp/Getty Images The Beatles’ song ‘Help!’ stopped Bob Dylan from having a No. 1 hit in 1965
Escaping The Beatles’ shadow on the Billboard charts was next to impossible in the mid-1960s. The band tallied 47 of their 64 top-100 singles between 1964 and 1966. That run coincided with some of Dylan’s finest work of the decade. That included 1965’s Highway 61 Revisited.
Dylan had an incredible peak in the 1960s.
(l-r) George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon; Bob Dylan | Bettmann; Stanley Bielecki/Asp/Getty Images The Beatles’ song ‘Help!’ stopped Bob Dylan from having a No. 1 hit in 1965
Escaping The Beatles’ shadow on the Billboard charts was next to impossible in the mid-1960s. The band tallied 47 of their 64 top-100 singles between 1964 and 1966. That run coincided with some of Dylan’s finest work of the decade. That included 1965’s Highway 61 Revisited.
Dylan had an incredible peak in the 1960s.
- 6/4/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
John Lennon became an inspirational artist with The Beatles. That doesn’t mean he didn’t get starstruck by other musicians sometimes. He placed his wife, Yoko Ono, on a pedestal, saying she was as important as Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan. Speaking of Dylan, he once said John and him shared a non-musical similarity — their childhood homes.
(l-r) John Lennon; Bob Dylan | Mark and Colleen Hayward/Redferns; ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content John Lennon and Bob Dylan had a non-musical similarity in the kitchens of their childhood homes
Many older homes in and around Liverpool probably don’t draw much attention. The houses where John and Paul McCartney grew up would be exceptions. England’s National Trust maintains both properties and keeps them in a state of suspended animation. The group decorated the interiors as they would have looked in the late 1950s when Lennon and Macca...
(l-r) John Lennon; Bob Dylan | Mark and Colleen Hayward/Redferns; ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content John Lennon and Bob Dylan had a non-musical similarity in the kitchens of their childhood homes
Many older homes in and around Liverpool probably don’t draw much attention. The houses where John and Paul McCartney grew up would be exceptions. England’s National Trust maintains both properties and keeps them in a state of suspended animation. The group decorated the interiors as they would have looked in the late 1950s when Lennon and Macca...
- 5/29/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In 1967, Bob Dylan and The Beatles both released albums. Dylan, along with many other people, made an appearance on the cover of The Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. When he released his album John Wesley Harding several months later, people wondered if Dylan had returned the favor and put The Beatles on the cover.
Bob Dylan | Steve Morley/Redferns Did Bob Dylan hide The Beatles’ faces on his ‘John Wesley Harding’ album?
Dylan’s 1967 album John Wesley Harding had a snapshot of him standing in front of a tree with three men. It was a good fit for the album, which had a relatively simple production value compared to the psychedelic rock his peers were releasing at the time.
When listeners looked closely at the album cover, they began to wonder if faces hid in the tree branches. Per Rolling Stone, when the album is upside down,...
Bob Dylan | Steve Morley/Redferns Did Bob Dylan hide The Beatles’ faces on his ‘John Wesley Harding’ album?
Dylan’s 1967 album John Wesley Harding had a snapshot of him standing in front of a tree with three men. It was a good fit for the album, which had a relatively simple production value compared to the psychedelic rock his peers were releasing at the time.
When listeners looked closely at the album cover, they began to wonder if faces hid in the tree branches. Per Rolling Stone, when the album is upside down,...
- 5/12/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Gordon Lightfoot — a genius-level Canadian singer-songwriter whose most enduring works include “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown,” “Carefree Highway,” “Early Morning Rain,” and “Rainy Day People” — died on Monday, the CBC confirmed. He was 84.
Lightfoot’s deceptively simple songs, which fused folk with pop and country rock, have been covered by everyone from Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash to the Grateful Dead, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett, and the Replacements.
He scored a series of hits in his native Canada throughout the Sixties,...
Lightfoot’s deceptively simple songs, which fused folk with pop and country rock, have been covered by everyone from Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash to the Grateful Dead, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett, and the Replacements.
He scored a series of hits in his native Canada throughout the Sixties,...
- 5/2/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
In 1978, nearly two decades into an already illustrious career, Bob Dylan released the movie Renaldo and Clara. Dylan wrote and starred in the film, which combined concert footage, interviews, and fiction. It was not well received. Many critics panned the film, with one even going so far as to say he wished Dylan had died before he had the chance to make it. This type of reaction begs the question: do we expect too much of Dylan?
Joan Baez and Bob Dylan | Icon and Image/Getty Images Bob Dylan released the movie ‘Renaldo and Clara’
During Dylan’s 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour, the musician decided to shoot a film. He partnered with playwright Sam Shepard to write a script, but Shepard admitted they didn’t get far.
Renaldo and Clara Posters #5
The beautiful yet somehow very funny Italian poster. "The music leaps off the screen with electrifying brilliance and power.
Joan Baez and Bob Dylan | Icon and Image/Getty Images Bob Dylan released the movie ‘Renaldo and Clara’
During Dylan’s 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour, the musician decided to shoot a film. He partnered with playwright Sam Shepard to write a script, but Shepard admitted they didn’t get far.
Renaldo and Clara Posters #5
The beautiful yet somehow very funny Italian poster. "The music leaps off the screen with electrifying brilliance and power.
- 3/2/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Loudon Wainwright III is letting me in on the realities of life at 75. “Just the other night I was moaning and groaning about my orthopaedic problems, my bad back and my hip which is probably going to be replaced,” he says, a subtle smile playing at the corners of his mouth. We’re speaking via video call from his home on Long Island. Over his left shoulder, an antique map sketches an aerial view of his surroundings in Suffolk County, the easternmost tip of New York state. “I was doing what we call the ‘organ recital’,” he says. “How many times I have to pee in the middle of the night, and all that.”
Pondering this irrefutable evidence of physical deterioration, Wainwright turned to his partner Susan Morrison, an editor at the New Yorker, and came up with some words of reassurance. “I found myself saying: ‘The good news is,...
Pondering this irrefutable evidence of physical deterioration, Wainwright turned to his partner Susan Morrison, an editor at the New Yorker, and came up with some words of reassurance. “I found myself saying: ‘The good news is,...
- 8/19/2022
- by Kevin E G Perry
- The Independent - Music
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in the spring of 1941, Bob Dylan is a living American legend. Over the course of his 50-plus year career, he’s not only released 38 LPs, a handful of books, he even received the Nobel Prize for Literature. His whip-smart commentary on the world around him made him an idol to the likes of Steve Jobs and the average lay person in the Sixties. And he remains as relevant as ever.
While it’s impossible to track down all of the collectibles and gifts to get for...
While it’s impossible to track down all of the collectibles and gifts to get for...
- 12/18/2021
- by James Schiff
- Rollingstone.com
“You’re No Good” (Bob Dylan, 1962)
From his oft-overlooked folkie debut, a prophetic blast of rockabilly. Even in this early stage, hustling to make his name in the folk scene, Dylan’s got rock & roll in his bones.
“Going, Going, Gone” (Planet Waves, 1974)
One of his last great studio performances with the Band — and also one of his catchiest songs about death.
“Black Diamond Bay” (Desire, 1976)
A tale of forbidden love, violence, treachery — plus a final-verse twist where it turns out Dylan’s at home watching the news on TV,...
From his oft-overlooked folkie debut, a prophetic blast of rockabilly. Even in this early stage, hustling to make his name in the folk scene, Dylan’s got rock & roll in his bones.
“Going, Going, Gone” (Planet Waves, 1974)
One of his last great studio performances with the Band — and also one of his catchiest songs about death.
“Black Diamond Bay” (Desire, 1976)
A tale of forbidden love, violence, treachery — plus a final-verse twist where it turns out Dylan’s at home watching the news on TV,...
- 5/24/2021
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
In retrospect, we should’ve guessed this week’s un-Masked Singer. After all, the guy has 400 — no, that’s not a typo — acting credits to his name.
So we’re slightly ashamed that we didn’t realize that Danny Trejo — whom you may know from TV shows as varied as The Flash, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series and Sons of Anarchy — was underneath Raccoon’s furry head.
More from TVLineWhich Broadcast-tv 'Bubble' Shows Do You Most Want Saved? Cast Your Vote!The Masked Singer Recap: All in All, You're Just Another Trick in the DollThe Masked Singer: The Latest Clues About Chameleon,...
So we’re slightly ashamed that we didn’t realize that Danny Trejo — whom you may know from TV shows as varied as The Flash, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series and Sons of Anarchy — was underneath Raccoon’s furry head.
More from TVLineWhich Broadcast-tv 'Bubble' Shows Do You Most Want Saved? Cast Your Vote!The Masked Singer Recap: All in All, You're Just Another Trick in the DollThe Masked Singer: The Latest Clues About Chameleon,...
- 3/25/2021
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Spoiler Alert: Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 5 Episode 3 of “The Masked Singer,” which aired March 24 on Fox.
Danny Trejo has spent the past few weeks dodging people in public asking him if he’s the Raccoon on “The Masked Singer.”
“The Masked Singer” likes to keep the identity of its celebrities secret, but there’s no hiding Trejo’s unmistakable growl. And it turns out the fans were right: Trejo is the latest star to be unmasked on the hit Fox singing show.
“I’d be going to the market and somebody would say, ‘I know he’s the Raccoon!.’ I’d be like, no, didn’t you see me in ‘Heat’? I did ‘Con Air,’ I’m not the Raccoon, what’s the Raccoon! I think my best acting jobs have been in Vons Market, when women started telling me I was the Raccoon!
Danny Trejo has spent the past few weeks dodging people in public asking him if he’s the Raccoon on “The Masked Singer.”
“The Masked Singer” likes to keep the identity of its celebrities secret, but there’s no hiding Trejo’s unmistakable growl. And it turns out the fans were right: Trejo is the latest star to be unmasked on the hit Fox singing show.
“I’d be going to the market and somebody would say, ‘I know he’s the Raccoon!.’ I’d be like, no, didn’t you see me in ‘Heat’? I did ‘Con Air,’ I’m not the Raccoon, what’s the Raccoon! I think my best acting jobs have been in Vons Market, when women started telling me I was the Raccoon!
- 3/25/2021
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Stephen Colbert had none other than Bruce Springsteen on as his guest for the Wednesday night Late Show, discussing his new album Letter to You and the documentary of the same name.
The film acts as a tribute to Springsteen’s E Street Band, a celebration of its staying power and a eulogy for the friends — and the eras of rock & roll — that the band has said farewell to over its five-decade existence.
“I always tell people, imagine this: You’re going to high school right now,” Springsteen told Colbert.
The film acts as a tribute to Springsteen’s E Street Band, a celebration of its staying power and a eulogy for the friends — and the eras of rock & roll — that the band has said farewell to over its five-decade existence.
“I always tell people, imagine this: You’re going to high school right now,” Springsteen told Colbert.
- 10/22/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Dylan’s late-Sixties Nashville studio sessions — and his collaborations with Johnny Cash — are explored in the mini-documentary The Story Of Travelin’ Thru, 1967 – 1969, the companion visual to the just-released 15th volume in Dylan’s Bootleg Series.
The seven-minute film features new interviews with Rosanne Cash, Darius Rucker and Jason Isbell, and includes archival footage from Dylan’s Nashville sojourn, including in-the-studio video of Dylan and Cash.
“It was a revolution in music, in attitude, and understanding how incredibly powerful the cross-pollination of country and folk and rock was, and natural for the time,...
The seven-minute film features new interviews with Rosanne Cash, Darius Rucker and Jason Isbell, and includes archival footage from Dylan’s Nashville sojourn, including in-the-studio video of Dylan and Cash.
“It was a revolution in music, in attitude, and understanding how incredibly powerful the cross-pollination of country and folk and rock was, and natural for the time,...
- 11/1/2019
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Imagine how intimidating it must be to sing with Bob Dylan for the first time. Now think of how Dylan must have felt singing alongside Johnny Cash in 1969 when the pair united for a loose recording session in Nashville. Cash was nine years Dylan’s senior, and had put out his first single in 1955, seven years before Dylan, who turned 28 that year. It’s rare to hear Dylan sound like a fan trying to be a peer, but that’s what’s evident here. Those sessions serve as the core of Travelin’ Thru,...
- 10/25/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Dylan rolled out dates for his fall North American tour earlier this month, but he was holding back on the grand finale: a ten-night run at the Beacon Theater in New York City. Tickets go on-sale September 27th for what will be his longest stand at a New York venue since 1962 when he’d camp out at folk clubs like Gerde’s Folk City for weeks at a time.
This will be the third straight year of Dylan wrapping up his tour at the Beacon Theater, though the stand has grown longer every time.
This will be the third straight year of Dylan wrapping up his tour at the Beacon Theater, though the stand has grown longer every time.
- 9/23/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
In February 1969, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash holed up in a Nashville studio for two days of loose, free-flowing sessions where they sang each other’s songs, jammed with rockabilly icon Carl Perkins, broke into spontaneous covers like “Mystery Train” and “You Are My Sunshine” and even wrote the the tune “Wanted Man” that Cash would debut at San Quentin prison just one week later. Their duet on “Girl From the North Country” appeared on Dylan’s LP Nashville Skyline later that April and select tracks from the sessions leaked...
- 9/19/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Dylan has rolled out dates for a U.S. fall tour kicking off October 11th in Irvine, California at the Uc Irvine Bren Events Center and wraps up November 21st in Philadelphia at The Met Philadelphia. He has played extensively in Europe this year, but these will be his first North American dates of 2019.
Dylan’s Never Ending Tour turned 30 this year. He used to play around 100 shows a year (peaking in 2004 with 113 gigs), but he’s scaled it back in recent years. He played 84 shows last year and...
Dylan’s Never Ending Tour turned 30 this year. He used to play around 100 shows a year (peaking in 2004 with 113 gigs), but he’s scaled it back in recent years. He played 84 shows last year and...
- 9/9/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Johnny Cash wanted to make a big impression when his ABC music variety show The Johnny Cash Show debuted on June 6th, 1969. The back-to-back success of his recent live albums At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin re-introduced him to a mainstream audience outside of the country community, and this was a chance to greatly expand on that at a time when everything on network TV attracted millions of viewers.
Four months earlier, Cash spent the day recording with Bob Dylan at Columbia Studio A in Nashville, though only their...
Four months earlier, Cash spent the day recording with Bob Dylan at Columbia Studio A in Nashville, though only their...
- 6/25/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The 14-disc companion set to Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story just arrived in stores, but Dylan’s team is already looking ahead to their next archival project. “We’re thinking about possibly doing Bob’s work in Nashville from John Wesley Harding through the Johnny Cash sessions as the next Bootleg Series,” says a source close to the Bob Dylan camp. “The outtakes from that period have never been heard.”
The exact period they are looking at begins with the three days it took to...
The exact period they are looking at begins with the three days it took to...
- 6/18/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
In April 1969, Bob Dylan went to Nashville to record his ninth studio album. It would be his third time recording there with local session pros and producer Bob Johnston, but this time it would be different: Unlike the “thin, wild mercury sound” of 1966’s Blonde on Blonde and the ominous acoustic folk of 1967’s John Wesley Harding, his next LP would be a traditional country record. He called it Nashville Skyline.
While experimental bands like New York’s Velvet Underground and San Francisco’s Grateful Dead were pushing boundaries in music,...
While experimental bands like New York’s Velvet Underground and San Francisco’s Grateful Dead were pushing boundaries in music,...
- 4/9/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Released on January 20th, 1975, Blood on the Tracks was many records – in conception, execution and rapid change of mind – on its way to canonization: Bob Dylan’s greatest album of the Seventies and, as much as the singer has denied it since, the most emotionally direct body of songs he has ever committed to a single LP. It was an album born amid a crisis of family, largely composed in retreat – on Dylan’s farm in Minnesota – and initially recorded in New York as his nine-year marriage to the former Sara Lowndes broke down.
- 11/2/2018
- by David Fricke
- Rollingstone.com
Unreleased cover songs by Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello, Donovan and Tim Robbins highlight the massive compilation celebrating the 21st anniversary of protest music label Appleseed Recordings.
In addition to Springsteen’s take on “We Shall Overcome,” Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches exclusively features the rocker’s rendition of the Pete Seeger folk classic “If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song).” Morello contributes his version of AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,” while Donovan covers Joan Baez’s “Wild Mountain Thyme.”
John Wesley Harding, John Stewart,...
In addition to Springsteen’s take on “We Shall Overcome,” Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches exclusively features the rocker’s rendition of the Pete Seeger folk classic “If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song).” Morello contributes his version of AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,” while Donovan covers Joan Baez’s “Wild Mountain Thyme.”
John Wesley Harding, John Stewart,...
- 8/20/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a stunning announcement that for the first time bestowed the prestigious award on a musician.
The Swedish Academy cited Dylan for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
Reporters and others gathered for the announcement at the academy's headquarters in Stockholm's Old Town reacted with a loud cheer as his name was read out.
Watch: Kesha Performs Her Bob Dylan Tribute Intended for the 'Billboard Music Awards'
Dylan, who turned 75 in May, had been mentioned in the Nobel speculation for years, but few experts expected the academy to extend the prestigious award to a genre such as popular music.
The academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, said that while Dylan performs his poetry in the form of songs, that's no different from the ancient Greeks, whose works were often performed to music.
"Bob Dylan writes poetry for the ear," she said. "But...
The Swedish Academy cited Dylan for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
Reporters and others gathered for the announcement at the academy's headquarters in Stockholm's Old Town reacted with a loud cheer as his name was read out.
Watch: Kesha Performs Her Bob Dylan Tribute Intended for the 'Billboard Music Awards'
Dylan, who turned 75 in May, had been mentioned in the Nobel speculation for years, but few experts expected the academy to extend the prestigious award to a genre such as popular music.
The academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, said that while Dylan performs his poetry in the form of songs, that's no different from the ancient Greeks, whose works were often performed to music.
"Bob Dylan writes poetry for the ear," she said. "But...
- 10/13/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
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Ask any music obsessive about which year they recognise as the best in the history of popular music and any self-respecting one will say 1967. If the beginning of popular music can be measured (as it often is) by the rise of The Beatles in 1962 and the abundance of acts that formed in the Fab Four’s wake, the prevalence of this year seems understandable. Yet it truly is outstanding just how many career-defining long-players were dropped in ’67, from incomparable avant-garde masterpieces such as the Velvets’ Velvet Underground and Nico and White Light/White Heat, through the dark cynicism of Forever Changes and The Doors to the Beatles’ own rainbow-hued Sgt Pepper.
Although there is a distinct absence of many revered ‘60s artists from this list (the Stones were on the cusp of releasing a string of four fabulous...
Ask any music obsessive about which year they recognise as the best in the history of popular music and any self-respecting one will say 1967. If the beginning of popular music can be measured (as it often is) by the rise of The Beatles in 1962 and the abundance of acts that formed in the Fab Four’s wake, the prevalence of this year seems understandable. Yet it truly is outstanding just how many career-defining long-players were dropped in ’67, from incomparable avant-garde masterpieces such as the Velvets’ Velvet Underground and Nico and White Light/White Heat, through the dark cynicism of Forever Changes and The Doors to the Beatles’ own rainbow-hued Sgt Pepper.
Although there is a distinct absence of many revered ‘60s artists from this list (the Stones were on the cusp of releasing a string of four fabulous...
- 1/3/2014
- by Daniel Owens
- Obsessed with Film
December is a month that increasingly sees few releases of new albums, so the closer this list gets to the present day, the fewer albums of importance there are to discuss, and most of those are hip-hop albums.
1967
Traffic: Mr. Fantasy Aka Heaven Is in Your Mind (Island)
Shortly after Steve Winwood quit the Spencer Davis Group (of which he was the lead singer and organist), he formed Traffic with some guys he'd jammed with at a club in Birmingham: guitarist/vocalist Dave Mason, saxophonist/flutist Chris Wood, and drummer/lyricist Jim Capaldi. After a couple of hit singles, they convened at a country cottage and put together the debut album by Traffic, titled Mr. Fantasy in their native country. By the time it was released, Mason had already quit.
The English and American editions were rather different. Not only did the U.S. LP (on United Artists) have...
1967
Traffic: Mr. Fantasy Aka Heaven Is in Your Mind (Island)
Shortly after Steve Winwood quit the Spencer Davis Group (of which he was the lead singer and organist), he formed Traffic with some guys he'd jammed with at a club in Birmingham: guitarist/vocalist Dave Mason, saxophonist/flutist Chris Wood, and drummer/lyricist Jim Capaldi. After a couple of hit singles, they convened at a country cottage and put together the debut album by Traffic, titled Mr. Fantasy in their native country. By the time it was released, Mason had already quit.
The English and American editions were rather different. Not only did the U.S. LP (on United Artists) have...
- 12/19/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Everett Collection Bob Dylan in 1967 in the movie “Don’t Look Back.”
Bob Dylan, who turns 70 years old today, has written hundreds of songs. Everyone knows and loves “Like a Rolling Stone” – Rolling Stone magazine named it the greatest song of all time. “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “The Times They are a-Changin” and many others have become American standards.
Dylan has made so much music since he started out in 1961 that some of his gems are under-appreciated. Here are five from the 1960s,...
Bob Dylan, who turns 70 years old today, has written hundreds of songs. Everyone knows and loves “Like a Rolling Stone” – Rolling Stone magazine named it the greatest song of all time. “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “The Times They are a-Changin” and many others have become American standards.
Dylan has made so much music since he started out in 1961 that some of his gems are under-appreciated. Here are five from the 1960s,...
- 5/24/2011
- by Jon Friedman
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Would Bob Dylan stop his punishing schedule for Martin Carthy's samurai sword or a slice of Alela Diane's apple pie? We asked some famous fans to come up with the perfect gift for him…
Geoff Dyer: writer
What I propose is this: that on 24 May, at 7pm BST precisely, we all throw open our windows and – in homes, cars or bars around the world – play a Dylan track on our stereos or iPods. Checking a photocopy of his birth certificate I see that Robert Zimmerman was born at 9.05pm, but 7pm is a good time because, well, it chimes with 70. It also means that a good part of the planet can join in the gift-celebration at the same moment (11am in California). The choice of track is up to you. Some people will go for anthems like "Blowin' in the Wind" that I can't bear to listen to or...
Geoff Dyer: writer
What I propose is this: that on 24 May, at 7pm BST precisely, we all throw open our windows and – in homes, cars or bars around the world – play a Dylan track on our stereos or iPods. Checking a photocopy of his birth certificate I see that Robert Zimmerman was born at 9.05pm, but 7pm is a good time because, well, it chimes with 70. It also means that a good part of the planet can join in the gift-celebration at the same moment (11am in California). The choice of track is up to you. Some people will go for anthems like "Blowin' in the Wind" that I can't bear to listen to or...
- 5/21/2011
- by Geoff Dyer
- The Guardian - Film News
Get cultured with The Ice Storm author Rick Moody, see Travolta start a disco inferno, and Bird is the word this weekend... and best of all, everything's free! "Word for Word Author" with Rick Moody and John Wesley Harding Hey all you midtown office drones! Instead of noshing at the local Subway, take your $5 foot-long to Bryant Park and check out this lunchtime talk and mini-concert with author Rick Moody and songwriter John Wesley Harding. Moody will read from his new book The Four Fingers of Death, the novelization of the 1963 horror flick, The Crawling Hand, and will join Harding for a musical performance. Where: Bryant Park Reading Room, 42nd Street side of Bryant Park, Manhattan When: Wednesday, August 25, 12:30 Pm to 1:45 Pm Price: Free! Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: Saturday Night Fever As Tony Manero, John Travolta hustled his way into our hearts, becoming one of the most...
- 8/24/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Little Walter - The Complete Chess Masters (1950 - 1967) Blues harmonica player and singer Little Walter died over forty years ago, but his influences still can be heard in many blues-rock recordings that employ the instrument. Following his tenure with Muddy Waters' band, his 1952 single "Juke" was Chess Records' first big hit (r&b #1 for weeks), initiating a string of r&b chart toppers for the artist that included "Off The Wall" and "Sad Hours." While maintaining his own career, Little Walter also played on Muddy Waters' solo albums as well as his other Chess teammates' projects. Assembled here are five full CDs of all of the master's Chess material, and although studying someone as mid-level famous as Little Walter might be too insider baseball for some, it's worth the listen, purchase, and Grammy nod in this year's historical category....
- 4/13/2009
- by Mike Ragogna
- Huffington Post
New York — Big Pink is one of those middle class ranch houses of the type that you would expect to find in development row in the heart of suburbia rather than on an isolated mountaintop high above the barn architecture of New York State’s rustic Woodstock. When the band moved into Big Pink in the spring of 1967, the house looked as if it had been tenanted by little more than a housewife with a dustmop who only crossed its threshold once a week to clean it.
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- 8/24/1968
- by Alfred G. Aronowitz
- Rollingstone.com
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