Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band began as a concept album. It was Paul McCartney’s idea to recreate an Edwardian era army band for the album; this would give the Beatles an alter ego that let them do something different from what the public expected. It would give them the...
In 1963, in the introduction to “Bob Dylan’s Blues” on Freewheelin', his second release on Columbia Records, the 22-year old singer originally from Hibbing, Minnesota, said, “Unlike most of the songs nowadays that are being written uptown in Tin Pan Alley ... this was written somewhere down in the United...
Chris Cornell, the legendary frontman of Soundgarden, one of the pioneers of Seattle's popular grunge sound in the 1990s, died last night following a sold out performance in Detroit. His death was ruled suicide by hanging by the Wayne County Medical Examiner. He was 52-years old. His last performance may...
Zdenek Pelc was an unlikely visionary. The owner of GZ Media, a failing record pressing plant in rural Czechoslovakia in the waning days of the Communist regime, he had no idea that vinyl records, a seemingly obsolete technology in the 1990s, would soon be unexpectedly revived and keep his business...
They have new star joining them. Chuck Berry is taking his rightful place beside them in music heaven. There would be no rock and roll without him. When he and Elvis suddenly appeared the 1950s, everything suddenly changed. When the second wave of rock and roll hit our shores in...
An original UK mono version of The Beatles 1968 White Album is up for sale on eBay and the opening bid is $1,998.99, however, there is a buy it now price of f$2,599.99 (£1934.65). According to the seller, the record is listed as VG+ condition and is super rare because of its low...
Tonight (Feb. 4) in their hometown of Birmingham, England, Black Sabbath play what appears to be their final show ever as they conclude their lengthy ‘The End’ tour. It’s one of the most heart-wrenching days in heavy metal’s history, which stretches back to 1970 when Sabbath released their eponymous debut, altering the course of...
The Heartbreakers weren’t Tom Petty’s first band, although they did include Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, two of the members of his early group of boyhood friends who were in Mudcrutch, one of his early bands in his hometown of Gainesville, Florida. The band outgrew the local scene quickly, were...
There have been dozens of stories published bidding farewell to musicians who died in in the past year. Music is important to our staff—and our soon-to-be-launched mothership, MusicMemorbilia.com We will miss them all. Rockerteeshirts.com couldn’t let the year end without saying something to remember them. Many well-known and gifted musical...
