George Young misremembered Bon as a piper – he’d been the pipe band’s drummer. So Bon bought bagpipes that afternoon for $479 and learned them mid-session. The true story of rock’s greatest bluff.
Browsing: song stories
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.
Inside the strange story of Echo & The Bunnymen’s “The Killing Moon” – from a lyric McCulloch swears came from God to Russian folk trips, studio drama and Donnie Darko.