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On a sunny Saturday afternoon, July 6, 1957, in the quaint setting of St. Peter’s Parish Church in Woolton, Liverpool, a musical phenomenon was about to be set in motion. John Lennon, a 16-year-old with a rebellious streak and a love for rock ‘n’ roll, was performing with his skiffle group, The Quarry Men, at…
George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh was an unqualified success, and the first-ever pop concert for charity.
Diving into the whirlwind recording session of The Beatles’ debut album “Please Please Me” is akin to unearthing a time capsule filled with musical marvels, quirky anecdotes, and the birth of legends. This album, crafted in a single day’s sprint on March 22, 1963, at Abbey Road Studios, is a tapestry woven with tales of…
John Bowers, Visionary of Sound In the quaint town of Worthing, West Sussex, a story of a remarkable individual began to unfold, a story that would eventually redefine the world of audio technology. John Bowers, the founder of Bowers & Wilkins, was born into a world where technology was rapidly evolving, yet the true potential…
An Interview with André Perry, legendary record producer and founder of the fabled Le Studio, Part 1
This interview was initially released on June 25th 2022. Founder of Quebec’s fabled Le Studio music studio and recipient of the Order of Canada and an honorary doctorate from Laval University, André Perry has worked with a who’s who of musical icons: John Lennon, Rush, Cat Stevens, The Police, the Bee Gees, Keith Richards, Roberta…
In the transformative year of 1969, amidst the backdrop of Woodstock and intense Vietnam War protests, the Paul McCartney death rumor seeped into pop culture, becoming one of rock’s most tenacious legends. This Beatles conspiracy theory contended that the beloved bassist, Paul McCartney, had met a tragic end in a 1966 car accident. Instead of…
54 years back, in a slice of London that was more suburbia than swinging, The Beatles—rock’s original Fab Four—stopped traffic, literally and figuratively. It was August 8, 1969, when John, Paul, George, and Ringo strutted down Abbey Road, giving birth to an image as legendary as the riffs on that album. Outside the legendary recording…
On August 4, 1967, an English rock band known as Pink Floyd released their debut album ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.’ It wasn’t just another rock album. It was an eclectic mixture of psychedelic whimsy, philosophical introspection, and avant-garde experimentation that signaled the arrival of a major new force in British rock music.…
Badfinger’s new album was both falling behind schedule and becoming more expensive, and the label rejected the initial session tapes
The ultimate version of its acclaimed 800 Series Diamond loudspeaker range • The new 801 D4 Signature further refines and advances the already reference-standard 801 D4, introducing all-new levels of insight and realism that truly put it in a class of its own. • The new range also introduces the 805 D4 Signature, designed to…
1970 proved to be a landmark year in the annals of rock music.
If you were oblivious to Beck’s debut, you could think it was some long-lost Zeppelin material.
Having completed a tour in England that featured George Harrison and Eric Clapton as guest guitarists, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends returned to America to help Clapton finish his solo debut and embark on a four-month tour to support the album.
The Beatles had suddenly disappointed me. Sure, in 1966 I was just a kid, but I’d been a fan of the group since the beginning. I’d spent hours hunched over my little blue and white 45 RPM record player playing the 7-inch singles of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” over…
Having cut his teeth at age twenty as an assistant engineer on none other than the Beatles’s Abbey Road and Let It Be sessions, Parsons truly rose to prominence by engineering the landmark rock and audiophile favourite, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon.