
Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96
Tony Bennett followed in the musical path of the greatest American pop singers of the 20th century, and carried the torch for them into the 21st.
Tony Bennett followed in the musical path of the greatest American pop singers of the 20th century, and carried the torch for them into the 21st.
The complete lyrics of Mac Miller’s album “Swimming” (2018)
Endings are a very important part of Dylan’s art, and I want to talk about endings particularly in relation to rhymes. You’ll remember the stroke of genius that makes the line, “Oh, Mama, can this really be the end?” be the antepenultimate line of the song in which it regularly appears.
Full list of songs used in the documentary movie “Tapped” (2009). Tapped is a 2009 documentary film by directors Stephanie Soechtig and Jason Lindsey. The two began the documentary after research into ocean pollution “kept leading them to bottled water”.
The rap group 2 Live Crew and their controversial hit recording “As Nasty as They Wanna Be” may well earn a signal place in the history of First Amendment rights. But just as important is how these lyrics will be interpreted and by whom.
On July 8th, 1984, Bob Dylan played a concert at Slane Castle in Dublin that was flimed for broadcast on MTV. On the day of the concert, the publication Hot Press arranged for the young 24-year old Bono to interview Dylan backstage. When Bono arrived, he found Dylan in the company of Van Morrison.
In the following interview, Tom Petty talks, in a genteel drawl, about his solo album, Full Moon Fever, his songwriting process, his relationships with collaborators old and new, and the quality of his life these days.
At the dawn of the 1970s, a young Florida band had plausible dreams of making it big. “We were better than anyone else,” recalls their bassist, Tom Petty, of his doomed first band, Mudcrutch. Now, though, he has reunited this mix of Heartbreakers and guitar teachers for a long-awaited turn in the spotlight.
The 20 greatest symphonies of all time as voted for by 151 of the world’s leading conductors.
Playboy sent freelance writer Rob Tannenbaum to interview the last of the big rock bands. He found that although the band members were out of touch with one another during the hiatus, they were not out of one another’s minds.
Bassist Doug Wimbish of Living Colour – ULU, London, England October 01 2017. Photograph by Alberto Piroddi / albephoto.com
Rock’s hottest heartbreaker, Tom Petty, reveals dark secrets — about record-industry execs, rock-‘n’-roll marriages and what’s in his pockets
Nel gennaio 1978 Bob Dylan rilascia una lunga intervista alla rivista Playboy
A fusion of Huck Finn and Woody Guthrie, the musician writes songs that sound drawn from oral history.
A candid conversation with the visionary whose songs changed the times.
A candid conversation with the iconoclastic idol of the folk-rock