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Jeff Beck Finally Hits a Knock-out: Blow by Blow at 50
Jeff Beck realizes corporate rock is bullshit and reinvents guitar

Ashley Musante
Mar 1216 min read
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Kashmir: The Zeppelin Epic to End All Zeppelin Epics
Led Zeppelin and the art of the epic

Ashley Musante
Feb 278 min read
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You’re Going to Make Me So Lonesome: Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks, and the Public Eye
How Bob Dylan tackled media perception, divorce, and identity all while reinventing the heartbreak album

Ashley Musante
Jan 2235 min read
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The Yardbirds Vs Aerosmith Vs Jeff Beck
How to unimpress you idol - who was already unimpressed

Ashley Musante
Oct 24, 20245 min read
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It's Only Rock 'n' Roll at 50: The First Stones Stumble?
The Rolling Stones and the first whispers of doubt (soon to be crushed)

Ashley Musante
Oct 18, 202417 min read
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Stevie Nicks and the Story of Rhiannon
How Stevie Nicks wrote one of the most defiant pieces of rock music in 10 minutes

Ashley Musante
Oct 10, 20245 min read
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On Top of The World in Six Years: The Case of the Legendary Let Down of Rod Stewart's Smiler
The beginning of the end of the beginning of Rod Stewart

Ashley Musante
Sep 27, 202417 min read
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Does He Have the Same Face?: Fifty Years of Ronnie Wood's Defining Debut
The most star-studded debut album of all time turns 50

Ashley Musante
Sep 13, 202415 min read
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Caribou at 50: How to Make A Filler Album Go Number One (You Have to be Elton John in 1974)
50 Years of Elton John's filler album - full of number one hits, lyrical masterpieces, and a band at the height of their powers!

Ashley Musante
Jun 26, 20248 min read
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One Hand Clapping: The Fifty Year Wait for Rock's Most Infamous Bootleg
How Wings proved they were a great live band without releasing a live album OR touring

Ashley Musante
Jun 19, 20244 min read
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Fall Down Drunk: The Simplistic Genius of The Rolling Stones and Loving Cup
Simplicity, Excess, Love, and The Rolling Stones: What Could Possibly be Better?

Ashley Musante
May 8, 20245 min read
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Black and Blue and Ignored All Over
So Much To Say, So Little that Matters

Ashley Musante
Apr 10, 20248 min read
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All The Nasties: A Song By and For Elton John
How do you describe the man who fails words? Well, you become a pretty damn good wordsmith.

Ashley Musante
Mar 25, 20245 min read
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Would You Trust These Men With the Future of Rock and Roll?: Faces and First Step, The Little Debut That Could've Saved Rock and Roll
Faces at their best was also Faces at their beginning, if that could be believed.

Ashley Musante
Mar 20, 202410 min read
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Five Years: A Look Into Bowie's Best Opener
Opening a world of bisexual alien rockstars would be a difficult - if you weren't David Bowie

Ashley Musante
Mar 13, 20245 min read
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What Does A Kid Know About Love? Everything, apparently.
The idea of the love song was perfected in 1970 with a 19 year old Bernie Taupin, as crazy as that can sound. Well, it becomes less...

Ashley Musante
Feb 14, 20244 min read
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Rod Stewart and The Bimbofication of Lead Singers
How the sexualization of a hair color was ended because of Rod Stewart and a disco album [for real]

Ashley Musante
Jan 10, 202410 min read
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How Escapism Helped Wings Cage Infamy: 50 Years of Band on the Run
Paul McCartney's stunning comeback album celebrates 50

Ashley Musante
Dec 5, 202313 min read
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Throwing Yellow Bricks Through Emerald Houses
Bernie Taupin, Elton John, and fifty years rock's most cynical look at fame

Ashley Musante
Oct 5, 202321 min read
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Bruce Springsteen taps nostalgia with a fist
How Born to Run turned Bruce into The Boss

Ashley Musante
Sep 20, 20238 min read
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