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Ashley Musante
Oct 24, 20245 min read
The Yardbirds Vs Aerosmith Vs Jeff Beck
How to unimpress you idol - who was already unimpressed
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Ashley Musante
Oct 18, 202417 min read
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)
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Ashley Musante
Oct 10, 20245 min read
Stevie Nicks and the Story of Rhiannon
How Stevie Nicks wrote one of the most defiant pieces of rock music in 10 minutes
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Ashley Musante
Sep 27, 202417 min read
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
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Ashley Musante
Sep 13, 202415 min read
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
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Ashley Musante
Jun 26, 20248 min read
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!
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Ashley Musante
Jun 19, 20244 min read
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
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Ashley Musante
May 8, 20245 min read
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?
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Ashley Musante
Apr 10, 20248 min read
Black and Blue and Ignored All Over
So Much To Say, So Little that Matters
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Ashley Musante
Mar 25, 20245 min read
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.
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Ashley Musante
Mar 20, 202410 min read
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.
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Ashley Musante
Mar 13, 20245 min read
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
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Ashley Musante
Feb 14, 20244 min read
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...
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Ashley Musante
Jan 10, 202410 min read
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]
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Ashley Musante
Dec 5, 202313 min read
How Escapism Helped Wings Cage Infamy: 50 Years of Band on the Run
Paul McCartney's stunning comeback album celebrates 50
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Ashley Musante
Oct 5, 202321 min read
Throwing Yellow Bricks Through Emerald Houses
Bernie Taupin, Elton John, and fifty years rock's most cynical look at fame
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Ashley Musante
Sep 20, 20238 min read
Bruce Springsteen taps nostalgia with a fist
How Born to Run turned Bruce into The Boss
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Ashley Musante
Sep 13, 202310 min read
Ooh La La
What did we lose when we lost Faces? Some damn good rock and roll, for starters
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