anniversaries
On this day (March 28) 50 years ago, Elvis songwriter Arthur Crudup died in poverty, as he had predicted. Most music fans today are aware there’s a long-running argument about whether the writers of the songs we love are fairly compensated for the profits made out of them. The internet brought the argument into the light, but it wasn’t really new. Since the era of recorded music began – and actually, long before that, when people bought sheet music rather than albums – the disagreement has raged on. It’s often assumed that those who reach certain heady heights will be more immune from being ri...
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Happy anniversary to Iron Maiden‘s The Number of the Beast. “Woe to you, oh earth and sea / For the Devil sends the beast with wrath / Because he knows the time is short / Let him who hath understanding / Reckon the number of the beast / For it is a human number / Its number is six hundred and sixty six.” These words have been etched into the annals of heavy metal history, signaling the onset of one of the genre’s most venerable songs: Iron Maiden‘s “The Number of the Beast.” The album, taking its name from the potent track, was released on March 22, 1982, thrusting Maiden onto bigger stages a...
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Happy anniversary to Anthrax‘s Among the Living! After Anthrax finished touring for their second album – their first with vocalist Joey Belladonna – the band was on fire. They had just experienced their first taste of mainstream exposure and had even played eight shows as the opening band on a bill with Black Sabbath on their ill-fated “Seventh Star” tour. While they were on the road, Anthrax wrote several new songs, including “I Am the Law” and “Indians” and they couldn’t wait to get into the studio to record them for what is now widely regarded as one of the best thrash metal albums of all t...
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Happy anniversary for KISS‘ Destroyer album. One afternoon in 1975, Alice Cooper’s producer Bob Ezrin was heading up the stairs to do an interview with City TV in Toronto, Ontario at the same time as the members of KISS, who had just performed for a the program, were coming down the stairs. Ezrin introduced himself to the face-painted musicians and before walking the rest of the way up the stairs he said, “If you ever need any help, call me.” Less than three months later, KISS’ manager Bill Aucoin rang up Ezrin to ask him if he was interested in working with the band on its fourth studio album...
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Happy anniversary to Disturbed‘s breakout album, The Sickness. The ’90s were dominated by an alt rock explosion, but as the decade came to a close there was a shift in sound to a harder edge. One of the leaders of this heavier sound was a young band out of Chicago who called themselves Disturbed, and on March 7, 2000, they released their debut album, The Sickness. Over the next few years, The Sickness spread throughout the rock world and became a multiplatinum smash. “People think it was like this meteoric rise. It really wasn’t,” frontman David Draiman told Loudwire. He recalls, “We beat the ...
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Celebrating the 38th anniversary of Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets’. They had already established a blueprint. Now, all Metallica needed to do was create the next-level songs for their epochal third album, Master of Puppets, which they started writing in mid-1985 and released March 3, 1986. It was easier said than done, but Metallica were up to the challenge. They had the momentum of a successful album and world tour behind them, and the confidence of a world class athlete an hour before a big game. Still, what Metallica accomplished in just six to eight weeks of writing was remarkable, especi...
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Happy anniversary to AC/DC‘s Stiff Upper Lip. Before AC/DC started working on the follow-up to their 12th U.S. album Ballbreaker, the band members agreed they didn’t want to return to the meticulous, demanding work ethic of the Rick Rubin-produced disc. Not that there was anything wrong with the songs on Ballbreaker per se, but in the studio Rubin was a perfectionist, and asked the band to do as many as 50 takes of some of the songs, a move that left the Australian legends frustrated and exhausted. So for album No. 13, Stiff Upper Lip, which came out Feb. 28, 2000, AC/DC decided to get back to...
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