His mother told him she was an alcoholic when he was a boy; her 25-year sobriety broke when both sons turned to heroin. The family story addiction headlines never show.
Browsing: Music
Written in his father’s voice on Chris Cornell’s couch, ‘Rooster’ turned an unspoken Vietnam tour into a song – and the estranged Cantrells into family again. The man in the photo is the man in the song.
Shop staff keep looking up to find Led Zeppelin’s singer at the racks, buying young bands’ vinyl. Plant’s lifelong record-store habit is the engine of rock’s greatest second act.
No album out, a midnight slot moved to 2pm, and a leader peaking on mescaline who thought his guitar was a snake – the 45 Woodstock minutes that made Santana famous before their debut hit shops.
Between Cheap Thrills and Pearl her voice audibly changed – and on her last album, with Paul Rothchild coaching between takes, Joplin was learning restraint just in time. Almost.
1,128 shows in eight years, every one sold out, 636 of them in Vegas alone – and a private man who existed only at night, behind walls. The domestic Elvis the cameras never found.
A lefty in a righty market, Hendrix flipped his Stratocasters and reversed every asymmetry Fender built in – the slanted pickup, the string lengths, the controls. What the flip actually did to his sound.
Dessert for breakfast, her own golf cart, fairgrounds rented until sunrise – and an upstairs that was always his. What Graceland was actually like for the little girl who lived there.
NBC ordered a Christmas special. Director Steve Binder and a bored, hungry Elvis delivered black leather, a boxing-ring stage and ‘If I Can Dream’ – the hour of television that saved his career.
The bulldozer roar of Slipknot and the radio croon of Stone Sour come from the same throat. Inside the technique that lets Corey Taylor run two unrelated voices – and why so few can follow him.