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The mid-’70s were a chaotic period in the life of John Lennon. On the one hand, his marriage to Yoko Ono had broken down, and his personal life was suffering, but professionally, he was excelling. His art was prospering even though Lennon was going through the most reckless period of his life, suddenly making music for himself wasn’t enough anymore — he wanted to sit behind the mixing desk. The former Beatle had a shortlist of just two names he wanted to coax the best out of as a producer, and he reached for the stars. Lennon’s ‘Lost Weekend’ saw him and Harry Nilsson cram more wild antics in a brief spell than most manage in a lifetime. This hedonistic groundhog day that the two singers found themselves trapped within did see them come together creatively for Pussy Cats — Nilsson’s solo album, produced by the bespectacled Beatle. Fittingly, the front cover included an inside joke with the children’s letter blocks’ D’ and ‘S’ on either side of a rug under a table—to spell out “drugs un...

  Chances are, if you’ve been in the music industry for the majority of your life that some songs will stick with you, close to your heart and others, well, they’ll follow you around like a bad smell. For the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, he has struggled with both, sometimes within the same track. That’s because the song Robert Plant hates from the band’s back catalogue is quite possibly their most adored hit. So “hate” may be a bit strong. It’s not like Jimmy Page’s least-liked songs ‘Livin’ Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman)’ and ‘All My Love’, which he described as “not us” and refused to play live. This song was consistently played at Led Zeppelin shows; in fact, for many, it was the main attraction. Of course, we’re talking about one of the most famous tracks in the world, Zeppelin’s masterpiece ‘Stairway To Heaven’. For Plant, the song is no longer a transcendent moment of rock ‘n’ roll purity but a trip and fall down the spiralling staircase to hell. Plant has ne...

  Welcome to National Chop Suey Day (Aug. 29), and while we're certain the national day was designed to salute the American Chinese culinary cuisine, we've chosen to pay homage to the greatest song ever titled after the dish,  System of a Down 's "Chop Suey!" Why? We wanted to, of course. So go ahead, grab a brush and put a little makeup and leave your keys upon the table. You don't need to go anywhere and we won't be forsaking you. In fact, you'll get a full on selection of just about every version of "Chop Suey!" you could ever imagine -- some great, some .... well, at least they tried. So, without further adieu, we commend our spirit to deliver you these 25 "Chop Suey!" covers. Motionless in White Let's start with a few acts you know. Motionless in White have been rocking it for years and the Chris Motionless-led band decided to serve up their version of the System of a Down classic during their 2017 touring. This footage com...

  The metal dons are releasing an album with the San Francisco Symphony. The band never shy away from experimentation, as we shall see... Few bands have had careers quite like  Metallica . They were arguably heavy metal’s first superstar band (“Oi!”, says someone from Iron Maiden; “Hang about!” adds a Black Sabbath member), and their career has been – at once – magnificent, hyper-creative, ridiculous, thrilling, heart-breaking, pioneering – and occasionally total dogshit. With more releases than we’ve got fingers, theirs is a discography that’s easy to lose yourself in. Here is, then, a rundown and reappraisal of all the metal titans’ releases, from thrashy beginnings to stadium rock triumph and beyond. No need to thank us. Don’t headbang too hard. ‘Death Magnetic’  (2008) First things first: Metallica’s ninth studio album isn’t a bad album. So why’s it listed here, so low in this rundown? Well, as we shall see, the San Francisco quartet have rarely ever played things saf...

  The Beatles legend also weighs in on what he considers his best solo Paul McCartney is, like all of us, in lockdown, but as he says in a new interview with  GQ , he considers himself “lucky, because what I do, it all starts with writing, and I can pretty much do that anywhere, so long as I’ve got a  guitar .” And throughout the interview, the Beatles legend discusses his guitars in depth, including relating a story about how his admiration for Jimi Hendrix led him to one of his most-loved electrics. “I have an Epiphone Casino, which is one of my favorites,” he says. “It’s not the best guitar, but I bought it in the 1960s. I went into a shop on Charing Cross Road and asked the guys if they had a guitar that would feedback, because I was very much into Jimi Hendrix and that kind of thing. “I loved that kind of stuff and so I wanted a guitar that was going to give me feedback, as none of the others could. So they showed me the Casino. Because it’s got a hollow body, it fee...