30. januar 2016 arkiv

For 47 år siden: Beatles på taget

30. januar 2016

Ja, det er Rolling Stone, der gør opmærksom på denne særlige dag. For 47 år siden på denne dag gav The Beatles koncert på taget til Apple Corporations hovedbygning. En god koncert efter min mening. En koncert, der hamrede en pæl gennem den fordom, at de ikke kunne spille live (en fordom de selv lå under for i flere år, som bekendt).

Når man opdager musikken… som teenager

30. januar 2016

I remember when and where I was when I first heard Pink Floyd. I was 14 years old and I was getting a ride from school, from a senior, back to my house. And they started playing Pink Floyd and I was like, “What is this?” and they explained it to me, and I had never heard any music like that. It wasn’t one genre or another; it was just whatever they wanted to create, and I thought it was so interesting. And I started getting into music around that time, like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath; I started getting into that kind of music, and I thought, “I been missing everything!” It was like having blinders on. I started really diving into the history of music when I was around 14 years old.

Britany Howard, sanger, guitarist, sangskriver i Alabama Shakes til NPR