Music Intelligence
2026-07-22
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"He said he did these big gigs to make money, but what he enjoyed best was playing in churches and castles with his missus"
The Scorpions' 19 studio albums, ranked from woeful to wonderful
Bram Stoker brought steampunk to prog, connected to The Stones and The Who, and didn’t know their only record had been released until 32 years later
In 1985 guitarists Steve Hackett and Steve Howe hit the US Top 20 with GTR’s When The Heart Rules The Mind – and then it was suddenly all over
Justin Hayward and co weren’t sure how long The Moody Blues would last after inheriting the music of Denny Laine - but they needn’t have worried
"It changed everything"
Keyboard legend Keith Emerson’s jam-packed career saw interactions with the ‘strange’ Dario Argento, Motörhead’s Lemmy, and karaoke
"That riff is probably the very first heavy metal riff ever"
He recalls discovering what Bert Jansch was really like, leaving Danny Thompson on stage, and the band’s artistic connection to Jimi Hendrix
"We were playing to capacity crowds, six or seven nights a week, everywhere we went. So we figured something was about to happen"
Few effects are as instantly recognizable — or divisive.
When Hendrix arrived in the UK in 1966, the rock world tilted on its axis and he shot from unknown to superstar and changed everything
"I don't think there is any musician that I've worked with that has ever come close to that"
Hotels, hangouts, crash pads, recording studios, sweaty gigs, swanky nightclubs… and where it all ended in tragedy: Jimi Hendrix was here
"We did seven encores. We ran out of material and were forced to play Jimi Hendrix tunes. Imagine that, opening for Cream and finishing with Hendrix tunes?"
"We were convinced we weren’t going to live past 30. So that made us wanna live life to the full"
Founder of The Animals, party buddy of Hendrix and Morrisonand hero to Springsteen, Eric Burdon is a bluesman, a rogue and a survivor, and this is his story
Jimi Hendrix's final show was at a festival marred by terrible weather, machine-gun fire and marauding Hell's Angels
Jeff Beck hung out with Hendrix, got shock treatment with Ronnie Wood, shared girlfriends with Keith Moon, and was friends and rivals with Clapton and Page
"This old lady really freaked out and said: 'Turn the backing track down!'"
