Fame

Fame


  • The King’s First Chords: Elvis Presley’s Debut Recording

    In the annals of music history, July 18, 1953, marks a momentous occasion. It was on this day that Elvis Presley, the undisputed King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, ventured into Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, and made his first-ever recording. It was a modest start, a heartfelt gift for his beloved mother, that would inadvertently…

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  • “No, I have the best system in the world!” #6: Claude Lemaireโ€™s Audioverse

    One of the things that impresses me most about PMA Magazine contributor Claude Lemaire is the manโ€™s encyclopedic knowledge of popular music. If there was an edition of the game show Jeopardy! entirely focused on the minutia of who did what on any recording, Iโ€™m convinced Claude would have a legitimate shot at being inducted…

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  • Judas Priestโ€™s Rob Halford: โ€œRidiculous, insane, crazy, off my rockerโ€

    โ€œBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.โ€ โ€• Oscar Wilde In heavy metal, as in any walk of life, nothing matters like identity. To know it, to be it, to own who you are, as the great rockโ€™nโ€™roll sage, Wilde, so profoundly observed. And youโ€™d have thought Judas Priest would have owned that down to…

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  • Beatles Let It Be Reissueโ€”how good is this album, really?

    The Beatles will never be irrelevant. Ask any question about John, Paul, George, and Ringo and youโ€™ll instantly have six people who wanna know the answer, six who think itโ€™s absurd to even have to ask, and six more who think they have a much better question. Itโ€™s a never-ending cyclone that has insinuated itself…

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