Ever wake up one morning wondering what your name was? Whether this was your beautiful house (David Byrne has, but that’s another story)? Whether you somehow missed something that was sitting right under your nose?
In 1969, terror and paranoia swept through the film and music communities of Los Angeles after actress Sharon Tate, Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, aspiring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski and 18-year-old Steven Parent were brutally murdered in a house on Cielo Drive. In a bizarre twist to an already sensational story, the Beatles' 'White Album' wound up being played in court during the subsequent murder trial of Charles Manson, who claimed to have planned the killing spree because of messages he believed were buried in the music.
Join us as we take a look at the 10 Best posthumously released Jimi Hendrix songs, or in other words, songs that weren't yet released when he died.
With his third album 'Excitable Boy,' released in January of 1978, Warren Zevon finally broke through the gates of the mainstream to become a bonafide success.
January 14, 2013 What do you get when you mix the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" with Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love?" Surprisingly, a pretty cool mash-up! While some mash-ups can be like listening to nails on a chalkboard and extremely disrespectful to the music that has been butchered, in this case it's quite the opposite. Check out this amazing re-mix after the jump.
Nearly forty years after his death, Elvis Presley is still getting some parents in Utah “All Shook Up” over lyrics they say are too sexual for students to perform in their high school musical. The complaints that ultimately led the school administration to ban the production.
One of the reasons the Beatles defined the 1960s is because they broke up shortly after that decade had ended. On Dec. 31, 1970, Paul McCartney took the first step in dissolving the group by filing a lawsuit against his three bandmates and their parent company, Apple Corps.
“They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did," George Harrison said in the Beatles' 1995 'Anthology' documentary. "And then blamed it on us.” But even he could never suspect that, four years later, those words would ring true again when, on Dec. 30, 1999, a mad man attacked Harrison in his own house, nearly killing him.
A Swedish man was recently awarded unemployment benefits after getting his addiction to heavy metal music classified as a disability.
December 21, 2012 It looks like we may be in for a white Christmas after all! Last night we got a good coating of snow, and a Winter Weather Advisory in effect until midnight means even more snow. The roads were a bit challenging this morning with slick driving conditions and power outages. But the good news is, the world is still turning.
After more than 30 years apart, Graham Parker and the Rumour are back together with a brand new album, 'Three Chords Good' -- and to celebrate, they've just debuted a video for the song 'Long Emotional Ride.'
November 28, 2012 While listening to “Snoopy’s Christmas” yesterday, it took me back to my childhood. I remembered that the Christmas tune was third in a series of three songs by a group known as The Royal Guardsmen.
I had part two, “The Return Of The Red Baron” on a 45 when I was a kid. Check out the entire trilogy of Snoopy classics after the jump!
