Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...
The Rolling Stones began calling themselves the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" in the late Sixties. Few disputed the claim then, and few would dispute it now. The “bad boy” counterparts ...
So when I hear people say, “You should just change it to the Music Hall of Fame,” rock ... roll came from and what it’s truly about. Once they hear it that way, they understand. The best ...
nicknamed by many as "The King of Rock and Roll," was born 90 years ago in Tupelo, Mississippi. The son of Vernon and Gladys Presley, Elvis Aron Presley left a mark on the world of music that is ...
I think it’s a contrived and embarrassing idea driven by nostalgia and capitalism, and antithetical to the youthful rebelliousness that drives rock-and-roll music. Usually, I make these ...
Garth Hudson, the organist and multi-instrumentalist whose wizardry enhanced some of the best-known songs of 1960s and 1970s rock group the Band, including "Up on Cripple Creek," "Chest Fever" and ...
Jeff Beck's iconic 1954 guitar, part of a collection of approximately 130 instruments and equipment, far exceeded its pre-auction estimate at Christie's in London.