Talking about the secret of Aerosmith’s long-lasting success, singer Steven Tyler once said; “Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.”...
The cover version can be difficult, but if an artist pulls it off, they can create something incredible that completely overshadows the original. These songs did...
Alice Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical brand of hard rock that was designed to shock. Drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock, the group...
Arctic Monkeys were formed in mid-2002 by friends Alex Turner, Matt Helders, and Andy Nicholson (who left the band shortly after their debut album) when they...
Ariana Grande-Butera was born on June 26, 1993, in Boca Raton, Florida. Her family moved from New York to Florida before her birth, and her parents...
Badfinger had four consecutive worldwide hits from 1970 to 1972: “Come and Get It” (written and produced by Paul McCartney, “No Matter What”, “Day After Day”...
Maurice Gibb and his twin brother Robin were born in Douglas, on the Isle of Man (which is a very small island off the west coast...
Beyonce Giselle Knowles was born on September 4, 1981, in Houston, Texas, to Celestine “Tina” Knowles (née Beyonce), a hairdresser and salon owner, and Mathew Knowles,...
William Martin Joel was born on 9th May 1949 in the Bronx and was raised in a Levitt house in a section of Levittown, New York...
Yes, before Sharon, MTV and Ozzfest, John Michael ‘Ozzy’ Osbourne had a succession of jobs in the dark and depressing industrial English Midlands, including working at...
Deborah Ann Harry was born Angela Trimble on July 1, 1945, in Miami, Florida. At the age of three months, she was adopted by Catherine (née...
Blur formed in December 1988 when bassist Alex James joined Damon Albarn’s band, Circus, and they changed the name to Seymour after J. D. Salinger’s Seymour:...
On 13th Feb 1969, Bob Dylan recorded versions of “Lay, Lady, Lay”, at Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. “Lay Lady Lay” was originally written for...
He wasn’t made for these times…or those times…but for all times. Arguably the greatest American composer of popular music in the rock era, he inspired the...
Bruce Springsteen was born of Irish-Italian ancestry on September 23, 1949, in Freehold, New Jersey, the son of Douglas and Adele Springsteen. Freehold during his whole...