Articles by: Something Else!

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David Crosby appeals to Roger McGuinn for long-awaited Byrds reunion

The surviving members of the Byrds haven’t appeared together since 2000.

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‘I’m messier, and a little dirtier’: California Breed’s Andrew Wyatt on Joe Bonamassa

California Breed’s Glenn Hughes and Jason Bonham worked with Bonamassa in Black Country Communion.

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Yoko Ono on the making of the Beatles’ avant-garde ‘Revolution 9’: ‘We just did it’

“Revolution 9” remains as big a mystery today as it was the moment it appeared on the Beatles’ 1968 self-titled album.

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‘More naturally at home with us’: Queen on the difference between touring with Adam Lambert, Paul Rodgers

Rodgers filled in for Freddie Mercury in 2005-09; Lambert has worked with Queen since.

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‘A powerhouse not to be duplicated’: Dan Aykroyd on the secret to the Blues Brothers’ success

They had the luck of timing and a classic R&B cut. They also had something else.

Jim McCarty on the Yardbirds' greatest guitarist - Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck or Jimmy Page?

Jim McCarty on the Yardbirds’ greatest guitarist – Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck or Jimmy Page?

Clapton, Beck and then Page played lead with the Yardbirds between 1963-68.

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The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson aims to compose alone: ‘I’ve had it with collaborators’

As for his old bandmates, Wilson says: “They were just not as good as writers.”

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A last-minute casting decision finally sold the Monkees’ TV program: ‘It tested terribly’

“They were really worried,” Micky Dolenz says, “that they weren’t going to be able to sell the show.”

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For Hall and Oates, appearing on Soul Train was a signature moment: ‘Anybody who was anybody’

“An amazing show,” John Oates says, “that perfectly captured the R&B music of that era.”

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‘It was inappropriately titled’: Did ‘History of the Eagles’ focus too much on Glenn Frey and Don Henley?

“It should have been titled,” Don Felder says, “‘The History of Don Henley and Glenn Frey.'”