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“It should not exist.” Led Zeppelin wanted this record destroyed. A rare copy just showed up (opens the original)
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One of Led Zeppelin’s most unusual business policies once saw manager Peter Grant fly into a rage and demand that hundreds of seven-inch records be destroyed. But some escaped that fate, and one has just appeared on the U.K. TV show Antiques Roadshow. The band was formed by former Yardbirds guitarist Jimmy Page after his brief new project with Jeff Beck ended in a disagreement that would rage on for years to come. Between 1969 and 1970, the band released three albums that would take rock to new
Paul McCartney on John Lennon’s post-Beatles criticism: “He could be a complete idiot over some things” (opens the original)
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Paul McCartney once said he felt that a part of him died when the Beatles broke up. So when his former songwriting partner, John Lennon, publicly panned Ram, one of McCartney’s first post-Beatles albums, their once formidable relationship turned sour. Lennon called the 1971 album “awful” in a barbed attack. “I don’t like all this dribblin’ pop-opera jazz,” he added. “I like pop records that are pop records.” Speaking to Judd Apatow at the LA screening of his new Man on the Run documentary, McCar
Ritchie Blackmore says his first Stratocaster came from Eric Clapton. “His roadie came by the house and said, ‘I’ll sell it to you for £60’” (opens the original)
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In his legendary tenures in Deep Purple and Rainbow — and even through to his current exploits in Renaissance music with Blackmore’s Night — Ritchie Blackmore has rarely been seen using any electric guitar other than a Fender Stratocaster. But if it wasn’t for Eric Clapton, that might have never proved to be the case. Blackmore recalled how Clapton altered his six-string trajectory in 1969 by providing him with his first Strat. “I was in Deep Purple in 1969 and I was living in Acton, London,” Bl
Eric Clapton says selling these two legendary guitars was a “big, big mistake”: “They're very sacred things to me” (opens the original)
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Eric Clapton says he made a “big, big mistake” selling two of the most important guitars of his career, even though he sold them for a cause close to his heart. The 1964 Cherry Red Gibson ES-335 and “Blackie” — the legendary Stratocaster assembled with parts from a trio of 1956/’57 Strats — were among the guitars Clapton auctioned in 2004 to raise money for the Crossroads Centre, the addiction treatment facility he founded in Antigua. More than two decades later, he says he still struggles with
Fans want Keanu Reeves to induct Peter Hook into the Rock Hall after “Love Will Tear Us Apart” tribute (opens the original)
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It’s with good reason that Joy Division’s 1980 hit “Love Will Tear Us Apart” consistently scores highly in various rankings of the world’s greatest basslines. Now, actor and bass player Keanu Reeves has his own small chapter in the song’s immortal legacy. Released a month after singer Ian Curtis’ suicide, the song quickly became a defining track of the post-punk sound, with NME even crowning it the greatest single ever in 2002, despite the fact that it never appeared on a studio album. The song
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