Glam rock, also called glitter rock, burst onto the scene in early 1970s Britain. It was loud, flashy, theatrical, and unlike anything that had come before. I started listening to music seriously in the late eighties, and in glam rock,…
The story of “Stairway to Heaven” began in 1970 at a remote cottage called Bron-Yr-Aur in Wales. Released on Led Zeppelin’s 1971 album Led Zeppelin IV, this nearly eight-minute epic became one of the most influential and talked-about songs in…
Reznor has always been ahead of the curve in how music is distributed and consumed: I’ll never forget the first time I heard Nine Inch Nails. It was 1992, and “Pretty Hate Machine” was unlike anything I’d experienced before. The…
