Lead image by Lili Emtiaz. All other illustrations by Alley CatIt was while Gillian McCain and I were working on sixty-nine: An Oral History, our new book on the 60s
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The piano that John Lennon used to compose Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, A Day in the Life, and other songs from the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club
Five women who wrote rockWhen rock music was being invented in the 1960s, so was music journalism as we know it. These five women, profiled in Radio 4 documentary The
If you like documentaries, this is your week, as a number of fascinating subjects are deftly explored on newly released DVDs.“Soundbreaking” (Athena, 2016, three discs, eight episodes, featurettes, 20-page booklet).
In partnership with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, this winter the Newseum will explore how rock
On Dec. 10, Sotheby’s will bring to the auction block some of the most historically important artifacts of rock history. The New
In 1945, when he was 11 years old, John Loengard started taking photographs. He would borrow the camera his father,
Leonard Lewis, who has died at the age of 78, worked as a hairstylist for Stanley Kubrick’s films and the
Ask a random person on the street to list The Beatles and you’ll likely hear George Harrison named third, right after some


