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Fuck. I was only talking about him yesterday with a friend who’d recently gotten me into Audioslave. Chris Cornell, the lead singer of American hard rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, has died aged 52. The medical examiner confirmed Cornell’s death was suicide. Chris Cornell: rock star who kicked down the boundaries of sound Alexis Petridis […]
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The father of Rock’n’Roll is no more. Chuck Berry passed away peacefully at his home yesterday. Charles Edward Anderson Berry, better known as Chuck Berry, was born into a middle-class African-American family in St Louis, Missouri. He first rose to fame in the 1950s with songs such as “Maybellene” and “Rock and Roll Music”. In […]
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Rick Parfitt, the archytypal rocker and Status Quo guitarist, died on the 27th from a sudden infection. IN A WORLD FULL of affectation, Rick Parfitt was a musician who enjoyed his status as a rock star, wearing it with good grace and a broad grin. The partnership he formed with fellow Telecaster-wielding guitarist and frontman […]
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Mozart has topped the CD sales chart for the year, according to qz. The music business as we know it is dead. It’s fitting that the final nail in its coffin would be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—the 18th-century composer, long-dead himself—who this month became 2016’s top artist by CD sales. Mozart owes the win to a […]
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Taken while heading down to see Roger Moore in the BGE Theatre.
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… METAL! Well, Death Metal, Industrial Metal, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Metalcore, Alt Rock and Ska with some Leonard Cohen to mark his passing. Angry music! To match my angry mood at the world changing. Watching the rise of fascism and post-factual politics around the world is alarming. Hearing about the rise of racism and […]