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Today in Music History for Dec. 12: In 1792, 22-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven paid the equivalent of 19 cents for his first lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn in Vienna. Beethoven is ...
On June 8, 1998, Fatboy Slim released the lead single from his second studio album, You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby. “The ...
Records show that way back in 1998, during a set he was DJing in Ibiza, Fatboy Slim spun a track called "Satisfaction Skank" ...
With Brian Jones falling apart on set, the Rock And Roll Circus went so badly that the planned film wasn’t released until 28 ...
Their Satanic Majesties Request' was The Rolling Stones' first self-produced album, but that wasn't their original intention.
Keith Richards discusses the meaning behind "Beast Of Burden" from The Rolling Stones' 1978 album, 'Some Girls'.
As the Stones stormed back from a period of inactivity with a classic album, Beggars Banquet, they lavished a £50,000 budget ...
The Mavericks' co-founder and frontman Raul Malo died on Monday, Dec. 8 of leptomeningeal disease, a form of cancer. He was ...
Raul Malo, the operatic vocalist and co-founder of the Grammy-winning, Latin-tinged country band the Mavericks, died Monday. He was 60. A rep for the Mavericks confirmed his death to Rolling Stone, ...
Angie Bowie, David's wife between 1970 and 1980, reflected on what is now known as the "Ziggy Stardust Farewell Party," in a ...
A veteran of the Fluxus art movement, he brought an anarchic spirit to the California acid-rock scene with his band, the ...
Trisha Yearwood and Chris Isaak are among the artists who paid tribute to Raul Malo after the singular frontman for the Mavericks died on Dec. 8.