“The Air Went Out Of the Studio.” She doesn’t regret it. In fact, “Hell no!” was her emphatic reply when asked if she’d do things differently if given the chance during a 2002 interview with Salon Magazine. Now 52, Sinead O’Connor is more than 25 years removed from the moment that left America speechless – […] More
When Duane Allman died in 1971, he left behind more than just a glowing legacy: he left behind a daughter. Born in 1969, Galadrielle Allman has the unique distinction of being the daughter of one of rock’s most venerated figures. Just two years old when her father died, she spent the next three decades longing […] More
“I Don’t Know Which Will Go First – Rock N’ Roll Or Christianity” Long before he was raising eyebrows by posing nude for album covers with wife Yoko Ono and winding up on J. Edgar Hoover’s watch list for his staunch anti-war views, late Beatle John Lennon raised quite a few eyebrows when during an interview in […] More
The greatest tragedy of Jim Croce’s brief life isn’t that he died young. It’s that he died too young to see his greatest wish come true. Just 30 years old when the Beechcraft carrying him, accompanist Maury Muehleisen and four others crashed in Natchitoches, Louisiana, Croce was planning on leaving the music industry behind and […] More
“Destiny did not take us that way – it took us straight into Fleetwood Mac.” In a perfect world, Fleetwood Mac songstress Stevie Nicks would have been able to have it all; her career, success, and the one great love of her life, Lindsey Buckingham. Sadly, that’s not what destiny had in store for the […] More
It’s the album that broke every relationship in Fleetwood Mac. 42 years after its release, Fleetwood Mac’s groundbreaking album Rumours is still the unfortunate bearer of much of the blame for the turmoil surrounding the band at that time. Infighting and secret affairs abounded behind the scenes of Rumours, leaving no one untouched as significant romantic relationships […] More
It was there at his birth. It followed him throughout his life, over the course of his career, and when Mark David Chapman shot him outside of The Dakota on a frosty night in 1980, it was there to ferry him into oblivion. And no – it wasn’t a person or a presence that loomed […] More
The Greatest Feud That Never Was When Neil Young’s scathing criticism of the South and its ugly, painful history with racism came out to play in “Southern Man” and “Alabama,” it prompted a direct and measured response from Southern rock’s favorite son – Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Ronnie Van Zant. The result was “Sweet Home Alabama” […] More
Queen Look Back On Freddie Mercury’s Biggest Mystery On November 24, 1991, Freddie Mercury went to his death having lived one of the most remarkable lives anyone can recall. He also left his Queen bandmates in the dark regarding the hotly debated subject of his sexuality. Mercury, who died at the height of the AIDS […] More
