But maybe my favorite thing about the Beastie Boys is that they're worldly. When Ronnie went down in that terrible 1977 plane crash, the forward progress of the band ended. Page, in the end, was the one who took those ideas all the way with Led Zeppelin. That kind of storytelling has fallen out of pop music, for the most part. It's the benchmark you measure your album against if you're serious. No one else has had that kind of impact with one album. My mind was being blown by this beautiful violence that was unlike anything I'd ever heard before. The girl-group sound was everything to me. Kendrick Lamar Became The First Non-Jazz Or Classical Artist To Win The Pulitzer For Music. Trent's music, built as it is on the history of industrial and mechanical sound experiments, contains a beauty that attracts and repels in equal measure: Nietzsche's "God is dead" to a nightclubbing beat. Mars's music weaves together '60s pop, '80s R&B, reggae, and hip hop, just to name a few styles, proving that "genre" is not as confining a word as we used to think. When I was 11 or so, my first group was an early version of what would become the Miracles. But all the guys were very, very close. All of us on the East Coast loved Tupac. And then the guitars come in, and then the ambience comes in it's like several songs all blending into one. Sting played bass and sang, which you don't see very often. But when R.E.M. He looked young and on fire. At the end of each term we would have a show, and this time we had Cream in a small hall where I had once played Happy Loman in Death of a Salesman, which is beside the point. Even when it's just him and a piano onstage, it's powerful. Who are we to argue? Then I go from James' bass-baritone to tenor singing with the Everly Brothers first Don, later Phil. This is a band getting very strung out, putting so much blood and soul into what it's doing, and for the most part looked upon as trash. Scott Dudelson/WireImage. At a certain point in the Sixties, things got tough for Carl he had a drinking problem, which he eventually overcame and he went back into the lead-guitar business.

Two extraordinary artists were giving me the gift of their vocals and guitar parts for my album, Watermark. But Al Green is the show, and when you watch him perform, you see something honest and soulful and amazing.

When we started to do the song and Eminem made his entrance, I got goose bumps, the likes of which I have not felt since I first saw Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, James Brown and Aretha Franklin. Gram had the biggest repertoire of country songs you could imagine. It takes economy and simplicity to get to an idea or emotion in a song, and there's no better example of that than Hank Williams.

Ronnie Van Zant was Lynyrd Skynyrd. Vincent van Gogh. Every time one of his songs starts playing whether it's "You Ought to Be With Me," "I'm Still in Love With You," "Love and Happiness" or, of course, "Let's Stay Together" when the stomp starts and the guitar comes in, you know you're in for something full of sweet love. And they continue to rock on. The riff in "Walk This Way" is just us trying to explore the blues in the Yardbirds model. Joni Mitchell is a bigger icon than she is a star. I'm still coming up with stuff that is a complete and blatant rip-off. It's all about attitude. Carl Perkins' songs will outlive us all. His lyrics are deep enough to demand exegesis (see: Decoded), at times, cute and playful enough to be memorized by every "mean girl" at my high school (see: his verse on Mariah Carey's "Heartbreaker"). Living in Oklahoma, I sometimes can't relate when English bands sing about English things. By creating genre-bending dance anthems throughout the 2010s, Bruno Mars is considered by some to be a "pop historian" whose songs are as effective on the dance floor as they are at a political protest.

In the studio, he moved the mic across the room from the amp, which added ambience; everybody else was still close-miking. Admittedly, I was reading a lot about peak oil at the time, but c'mon, who else can inspire a crowd of 100,000 to throw their arms in the air while offering each individual brain in that crowd the opportunity to think critically about language and the state of the world today?

I went backstage, and we hooked up. My children grew up loving the Temptations, and we tried to see them every time they came to town. I played with Muddy, too, and it was so great to play with both of them. I see more and more people getting into his music today. Tina doesn't seem to have a beginning or an end. The town that I grew up in was called Columbia, in Maryland.

But I think "perfect" is the best review. There is this thing in them wound up so tight that they have to let it out, let that thing uncoil; it has to be released. At first, he made a gospel-like call to rise up, get on board, get ready. The music was all that mattered. I would not have envisioned that without him. I was in the balcony near the side of the stage. I interpret that song as both an ode to creative ingenuity and a critique of infinite-growth capitalism. I hope she can hear it. And of course, both bands have a singer with a really high-end voice that cuts through all the chaos below. It's hard to believe somebody could do so many different things. I wonder where I'd be right now if Dre had discovered me. He said, "It wasn't called heavy metal when I invented it." I first met Dre in December of 2003. Basically, we hung around together, like musicians do. If Talking Heads were around a cool idea, they would make it their own. It was precise and explosive and heavy. If vocal-cord vibration were like surfing off the swelling of the heart, James would be my favorite rider on the cusp a little in the air, sublime in the spray. Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman came with perfect songs like "This Magic Moment" and "Save the Last Dance for Me." We were playing the Deep South Crunkville, before there was crunk and it was just black people at those shows. Jimmy Rogers, who played in Muddy's band, used to laugh and joke about what Wolf had to say about Muddy and what Muddy would say back. And they are as intense and inventive as ever. The fourth member, Addie "Micki" Harris, had died in 1982. It belittles Radiohead to describe their music as having "hooks." That was their thing. Go home and turn off the radio.

Elvis' songs say, "I see you, and I know what you're doing." I was so inspired, I stood at attention and saluted. He's the definition of a true talent: Dre feels like God placed him here to make music, and no matter what forces are aligned against him, he always ends up on the mountaintop. Adele set the bar high for what music could be in the 2010s with her indelible, award-winning album 21. That's something the average rapper just could not do: build an entire album around that concept, and stay in that negative space. The first night was somewhere in Georgia, and we were thinking, "I hope people don't leave when they see them." You can clearly hear his influence in the monumental "Little Wing," by Jimi Hendrix. It's probably the most beautiful piece of jewelry a man has ever given me, ever. If the solo in "Have You Heard" isn't the sound of a cock ripping through trousers on its way to the promised land, I don't know what is. And I remember being a little jealous, because they were really hitting the nail on the head. Later you had Roger Waters evoking these big, universal landscapes of human crises. We're trying to do the same thing with Los Lonely Boys make a lot of different types of music into something our own but he did that first. He said he didn't like the way Tupac behaved because he knew that Tupac knew better. I remember Ginger Baker was insane back then, and I'm sure he still is. The most spectacular Jackie Wilson show I ever saw was at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater, around 1960. 3, $110 million) and California rock band The Eagles (No. When I first heard them, I was 14 or 15 and into a lot of heavy-metal and hard-rock music. Anyone who has ever been to a Metallica show, and banged their head, and thrown up the devil horns, has been a part of something great. People have said that "There Goes My Baby" was a very influential record because it helped set the stage for the Wall of Sound and Motown. I was too young to go to the concerts, but I'd hear about them from my older brothers and sisters about the huge stage shows, and one story about a fan who stripped off all his clothes and ran the length of the arena. On the back it says "To the Only Girl in Our Band." It takes a lot of courage to be that honest, especially as a woman. It's what you listen to when you're all hanging out: Drinking some beers, listening to "Oye Como Va" and cooking some barbecue is the best thing in the world. That's why we look forward to listening to Eminem's lyrics and finding out where the hell he's headed next. When they played their first gig, in 2003 at Coachella, the first thing Iggy did was start jumping in the air, flipping the bird to the crowd "Fuck you, fuck you and fuck you." Through it all, the Drifters always had this exquisite vocal blend. It sounds simple, but what AC/DC did is almost impossible to duplicate.

Those lyrics by Frey and Jackson Browne could have been from any Merle Haggard or Willie Nelson song, but the instrumentation and energy were decidedly rock.

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His music never went away on the West Coast, and you can still hear his mark all over music today. Aaliyah. There's a damaged quality to David Bowie's original mix that is way ahead of its time. When we played the Reading and Leeds festivals, we had to follow Slayer, and got bottles of piss thrown at us. They played like no other band.

Jimmy Page must have looked at Cream and thought, "Fuck me, I think I'll do that," and then put together Led Zeppelin. She set the road map for the success of Janet Jackson, Madonna anybody who could sing but wasn't a real crooner like Aretha or Patti LaBelle or Gladys Knight. As part of our 35th anniversary, were naming the most influential artists of the past 35 years. Elvis ended up covering the song and took a lot of the glory there. He speaks languages through his music that people can understand in any country, any language. A community that, as far as I could tell, consisted of exactly one person.

I remember hearing those boot stomps to "Holidays in the Sun." 22. Black Sabbath are the Beatles of heavy metal. At the same time, Mick was listening to what Gram was doing. "I know you can make it," he exhorted to soul-stirring harmonizing. People are listening. At the same time, everything they did was really smart and worked on a few levels; you could love a particular song, then realize a year later that you had totally missed the meaning. Hank lived what would have been a rock star's life full of touring, drinking and woman troubles. Also, he loved to get stoned. I would definitely have to quit smoking to be able to do what he did. Songs like "Paradise City" and "Welcome to the Jungle" were just simple enough; the chorus lines came right when you wanted them. And it all sounds good. Sometimes, while we were making Exile on Main Street in France, the three of us would be plonking away on Hank Williams songs while waiting for the rest of the band to arrive. My children didn't know who I was until they were 21 and were able to come in the clubs and see me. The words, the melodies and the sentiment are all there, clear and true. They're so alive. Elvis Presley 131,658,000 3.

It was Jimi Hendrix, and that was the first night he played in England. I have never seen such internal discipline in a band.

But wherever she may be, whether it's in Spain, Asia or Egypt, she's never forgotten her humble beginnings. Eventually I found out this man I idolized lived five minutes from me in my hometown. It is clear that the gift he gave lives on in that band's music. The thing was, he was doing that when the public eye was on him, and everything he was hashing out just expanded, and that's when things got out of control. And, no, no one ever calls him Mickey. Not too long after that, Guns n' Roses were asked to open for Aerosmith on their Permanent Vacation tour. Though some pressed Ocean to reveal his sexual orientation, he requested personal privacy, while still opening a dialogue between the hip hop and LGBTQ+ communities. He has that distinctive voice, and his range is staggering. Matter of fact, the first time I met him, I started tapping my feet as he was talking. And, of course, she was glamorous: I remember all those furs, diamonds and early bling-bling. My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. He was so loud. Yet, despite all these different pieces moving around, there is a lot of very simple musicality going on. We got to go back and do some digging. ("This person didn't pass the bar and has thyroid problems." As I waited backstage to present my speech, I was approached by three women arguing with one another as to who should be the one to go onstage and claim the award that was to be given to Jackie. Wolf's conversation was the same as his singing. Along with the Beatles, they gave those of us entering the business at that time something to aspire to that wasn't pop but was still popular. There are no train wrecks in Radiohead; every album and performance is wrenching. The first time we toured with the Beastie Boys was the Raising Hell tour in 1986: Run-DMC, Whodini, LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys. But at its best, it is still the sound of forward motion.

We were 10 feet from Jerry Garcia, and you could see how that audience zeroed in on him. Now people realize it's one of the best albums of the Eighties. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song let alone album after album. I was 11 when I first heard Sabbath. People think football players can't move when they're that big. Al Green has helped overpopulate the world. In the end, nobody described George Clinton's music better than the man himself: It is "Cosmic Slop," it is funkadelic funky and psychedelic. For Spector, the song and the recording were one thing, and they existed in his brain. Don't be influenced by anything. They rapped about shit they knew about: skateboarding, going to White Castle, angel dust and television. Web78 Likes, 4 Comments - STANLEYBARKER (@stanleybarkerbooks) on Instagram: "Join STANLEY/BARKER from the 5-7th November for a unique, three day book making They were an integrated band half white, half black. When he did, to me, I was getting paid. I first became aware of them when they were breaking out of Macon, Georgia. Lifestyle - The 20 Most Important Artists from The Past 10 Years Foghat? The day may come, if you're a young rocker, when you'll hear one of Clapton's mellow, contemporary ballads on the radio and think, "What's the big deal?" It was the lineup with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, who was playing bass on that tour. And he would ball that fist up. Carl was that good. These days rappers will just tell you, "I'll kill you.". Clinton would pull in people like James Brown's saxophone player Maceo Parker and anyone else he could find. Of all the bands I'd come across in my life, they were the finest arrangers. I couldn't get in. But they were the template for what I do, as well as plenty of bands that came after Guns n' Roses: Soundgarden, Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam all owed a serious debt to old-school Aerosmith. The shame is, I know how great the Yardbirds were. But he would also work very hard harder than I ever did on honing it down. was more melody-driven I'm sure he wrote his shit without a pen, and over the music but 'Pac was just hashing out his life. Obviously, most of today's jam bands are influenced by the Dead. You hear it in every song the way they could take the blues and turn it into a pop song like "For Your Love," then something psychedelic like "Shapes of Things," which has that weird middle. When he took the stage, adorned in a magnificent white suit, he spread his arms open wide, as if trying to embrace the entire room. Eminem has the balls to say what he feels and to make offensive things funny. Our waiter, Blixa Bargeld, leaned in to me and whispered, "The music is a birthday surprise for Lou. The singer was just one tile in this intaglio. Nobody sounds like him. michael kane gibraltar net worth most influential musicians in the past 5 years

In Jane's Addiction, we were into a groove that was very repetitive, riff-oriented and hypnotic similar in a lot of ways to a song like "War Pigs," off of Paranoid (my favorite Sabbath album). Even the way he casually held his hands while singing was hypnotic. Just write some great songs that's what you do." I think he's enthralled with what he's doing; he's intimately involved with his art.

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