Top Topham’s unlikely Yardbirds return was decades in the making: ‘Didn’t really approve of him carrying on’
Back in their earliest days, guitarist Top Topham was torn between two worlds.
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Ada Rovatti – Disguise (2014)
The tunes are solid and so are the arrangements, but there’s no disguising good playing and ‘Disguise’ has all of those things out in the clear open. A welcome return to form for Ada Rovatti.
‘He said the song was a hit because he was better looking’: How Rick Springfield got the best of Sammy Hagar
A late-’70s Hagar tune eventually hit the Top 10, but only after Springfield covered it.
Eric Wyatt – Borough of Kings (2014)
Eric Wyatt makes good on his enviable Brooklyn upbringing by evoking the masters he’s met as a child while finding his own voice to do it.’Borough of Kings’ is pure, Brooklyn-bred jazz at its finest.
Gimme Five: Neal Schon, Gregg Rolie + Steve Smith on Journey’s ‘Send Her My Love,’ ‘Anytime,’ ‘I’ll Be Alright,’ others
They offer unique insights into Journey’s first Top 20 single, and one of its last.
‘We think we’ve got it just fine’: Brian May bristles at notion that Queen + Adam Lambert is a tribute band
He says they walk a fine line between celebrating their past and moving forward.
Geddy Lee admits he has no idea why Rush suddenly became cool: ‘It’s hard for me to have perspective’
What changed? Lee isn’t exactly sure. But he’s got a theory or two.
One Track Mind: Marillion, “Gaza” from A Sunday Night Above The Rain (2014)
The costs of these conflicts, the very real costs, are writ large.
‘There was a freedom in it’: Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page on the wonder and power of John Bonham
He says Led Zeppelin gave Bonham “the vehicle to play the way he really wanted.”
Fortunato – Journey (2011): Forgotten series
Diligently designed songs, executed with taste, substance, and energy.
