Former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing recalls having a revelation at some point in the mid-Seventies. “I looked across at my bandmates and thought, ‘What the hell are they wearing?’” he tells Rolling Stone with a hearty laugh. At the time, the group was decking themselves out in frilly, silken …
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On Wednesday, U2 will take the stage at Tulsa’s BOK Center and kick off their Experience + Innocenceworld tour. It’s the culmination of months of rehearsal, though they originally envisioned the run taking place right after the Innocence + Experience Tour of 2015. But that was before they decided to …
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“Can you tell that I’m happy?” asks Bettye LaVette. The reason, the singer says, isThings Have Changed, her new album comprised entirely of songs written by Bob Dylan. With help from her husband Kevin Kiley, LaVette narrowed down Dylan’s enormous songbook to 12 selections, eschewing his biggest hits and best-known …
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When theDoors flew to England for their appearance at the Isle of Wight Festival in the summer of 1970, the band was at one of its lowest points. In the spring of the previous year, Jim Morrison had been arrested at a Miami concert and charged with “lewd and lascivious …
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