The flautist frontman talks about touring with Led Zeppelin, his contribution to "Hotel California", and how he may have done the first MTV Unplugged.The co-writer/guitarist on many Alice Cooper hits, Dick was also Lou Reed's axeman on the Rock n' Roll Animal album. I met with Andrea and she said she didn’t want to write a story about these people who were mythical objects of abuse, people who just took an inordinate amount of torture.“I started to realise it’s easy to see a slave as a character.

He was struggling and willing to do just about anything in the music business. This song, is actually about three boys who get trapped in a mine together. The movie A Star Is Born is like the Hollywood equivalent of a cicada swarm.

It's not officially based on a true story, but there are some real-life inspirations. David talks about videos he made for Prince, Alabama, Big & Rich, Sheryl Crow, DMB, Melissa Etheridge and Sisters of Mercy.Faith No More's bassist, Billy Gould, chats to us about his two new experimental projects, The Talking Book and House of Hayduk, and also shares some stories from the FNM days. Is "Jolene" based on a true story? In January 1979, Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle (a gift from her father) on a playground, killing the school’s principal and custodian, while injuring eight schoolchildren and a police officer. A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs “Indian Reservation” tells the heartbreaking story of how these native people were forced to give up “Our ways of life / The tomahawk and the bow and knife / Took away our native tongue / And taught their English to our young / And all the beads we made by hand / Are nowadays made in Japan,” a reminder at the time that the Native American plight continued in the 20th century, even though the Trail Of Tears was more than a century earlier.

Said Holmes: "Scepter Records in the beginning did not even know it was on their label. He was struggling and willing to do just about anything in the music business. See if you can spot the real ones.

“Billy, Don’t be A Hero” could also be read as a strong anti-Vietnam statement.
He was allowed to read a 91-year-old ledger on the reservation, in which he discovered the names of his great-grandparents. The song was mainly inspired by a red-haired bank teller who flirted with her husband, Carl Thomas Dean, all the way back at the beginning of their marriage.

Holmes explained: "It did better than we intended it to do. Definitely up the minstrel alley, “Lucky Man” was written by Greg Lake when he was only 12 after his mother gave him his first guitar, which may account for the song’s fairy-tale tinge.

The promotion men for Scepter Records, who were trying to break a Beverly Bremers single, would say, 'We couldn't get it on that station, they went with this stupid song called Timothy.' The B-side of SDR-12275 indicates "REVISED LYRIC" under the song title.

The lucky man of the title starts out with white horses and ladies dressed in satin by the score, but his luck eventually runs out.



It also shocked the British government and made them see that the costs and dangers of keeping slavery in the West Indies were too high.”Meanwhile, The Long Song sees most of the drama taking place at Amity Hall, where slave July (Tamara Lawrence) was born and brought up.Amity Hall and the sugar plantation in Jamaica did exist with slaves forced to work in the fields for nearly 100 years.The estate has records dating back to 1762 and was originally a sugar and rum plantation, which changed hands over the course of its 70-odd year history, according to a University College of London database.The plantation later branched out into cows, old iron and livestock, according to the accounts.But there is no family name of Mortimer, suggesting that the characters of Caroline (played by Hayley Atwell) and her brother were fictional but may have been based on Levy’s research.Similarly, July herself seems to an amalgam of author Levy’s background work but has been written as a memoir to lead the narrative.Reflecting on being cast as the lead July, actress Lawrence said: “Firstly it was a blessing to be gifted the opportunity to play a role like this.“I think just on paper, as an actor, it’s got so much nuance and complexity and so that in itself was brilliant.
Many original stories were first delivered in song format, as medieval minstrels with lutes wandered about various countrysides, composing odes and sagas about lost loves and fallen comrades. This was written by Rupert Holmes, who in addition to his hit " Escape (The Piña Colada Song)," has written a novel called Where The Truth Lies, an Emmy-winning TV series called Remember WENN, and several plays, including The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, which won five Tony awards. "Aberdeen" by Cage The Elephant is named after the birthplace of Kurt Cobain. There’s so much hatred, there’s so much of it that’s horrible, the racism - it was everything.