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Eric Clapton may have featured on some of the finest songs ever written, but he felt that only a handful of tunes had stayed ...
For someone as laser-focused on lyrics, Bernie Taupin never had time for when legends like Eric Clapton took the easy way out ...
Pattie Boyd is one of the very few people in the world who can say she’s been married to not one but two rock icons. The ...
The soundtracks of the '80s were packed with big, bombastic rock songs, but they also made room for less mainstream detours — ...
The follow up to Mel Brooks' 1987 cult classic is directed by Josh Greenbaum and written by Benji Samit, Dan Hernandez and ...
Leadership isn’t just about control—it’s about rhythm, chemistry, and knowing when to take the solo. Blues rock bands can ...
Former Guns N' Roses Manager Alan Niven tells UCR how he would trim the band's two Use Your Illusion records down into one ...
Now, you might assume that an artist as big as Eric Clapton would be above taking requests from his paymasters, but it turns out that one of his most memorable songs of the ‘80s was indeed written ...
The 1970s was a decade of incredible musical transformation, a vibrant tapestry woven with the threads of rock, soul, disco, funk, punk, and more. From gritty guitar anthems to soaring power ballads ...
These classic rock hits are inescapable, but the bands who made them have slipped under the radar. This is where they went ...
INTERVIEW: It’s hard to overstate the influence that The Band had on music, inspiring everyone from Bob Dylan and Eric ...
Columnist John Breunig traces visits by Beatles John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr to CT.