But I loved AC/DC. When a person gets rocking to their music, everything else disappears, and that person is just one with the rock. Carl Perkins' songs will outlive us all. The words, the melodies and the sentiment are all there, clear and true. Their outfits were wonderful I blame them for teaching me to wear loud colors. I wrote a song about him I've never recorded, but I will someday. One of Tina's big hits is called "We Don't Need Another Hero." My favorite Tupac album is The Don Killuminati. The impact she had wasn't flashy. Hank lived what would have been a rock star's life full of touring, drinking and woman troubles. 2023 Rolling Stone, LLC. I also remember being on a long cross-country family road trip as a kid, driving across the Texas desert at night. Aerosmith had an aggressive, psychotic, drugged-out vibe, but at the same time they had a Stones-y blues thing going on. They also came up with the cutting-edge dance routines. There are three kinds of record producers. I said to him, "Will you help me write a song or two?" That was actually a break Al played on Otis Redding's "Try a Little Tenderness." There was a real tradition of great singers in the group: Clyde McPhatter, Johnny Moore, Ben E. King and Rudy Lewis. I'm still coming up with stuff that is a complete and blatant rip-off. Hence began the rumor that I was a roadie for the Yardbirds. Metallica are fucking rad! I first heard R.E.M. Phil Spector could be the greatest of these. He stood there, not moving a muscle, while he issued the most savage assault you had ever experienced, unless you were at the debut of Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" and your seat was in front of the cannon. He was funny, gracious to all, had a beautiful smile and a genuine way about him a gentle and humble man at heart. They knew he knew. The places he played were so tough that he hired a wrestler, Cannonball Nichols, to be his bass player. There were songwriter-producers before him, but no one did the whole thing like Phil. People either try to emulate him in some way, or they go in a different direction because they didn't like what he did. A wayward fugitive, stumbling through the door of some Provenal cafe, his hat and coat soaking wet from the journey. I think he was the best electric-guitar player, other than Jimi Hendrix. Guns n' Roses played as a gang, which is just what you want. Lifestyle - The 20 Most Important Artists from The Past 10 Years It's amazing how many rock bands with serious grooves are made up of skinny English dudes. Joni is still unknown to lots of people. cookie-, . Lamar faced stiff competition though: the Pulitzer board reviewed 180 pieces of music, and decided that Lamar's album Damn sounded like nothing they had ever heard before (in the best possible way). Rock music is all about being phony sometimes. And that beat could really get a crowd going. Most guitar players like to go crazy, but Steve picked his spots, and when he spoke, it was profound. But it never does. You can always tell when you're hearing Tupac verse. When I started getting calls to come and play on some cuts behind him, I'd think, "Oh, shit, I better play right." Freddie vowed they would return as the biggest band in the world. Dolly Parton (1946Present) Seven decades of making a global career for herself, Dolly Parton has always charted new ground. It's strange to come to the end of a decade and suddenly have to figure out what it all meant. It seemed like he was singing about me walking in the sunsets in Oklahoma. She was gorgeous and skinny and this was back in the Twiggy days, when skinny was new and she had that big, beautiful hair. And the younger generation coming up now if you don't talk about the music or the artists, they don't know them. And it was loud, even outside. The Dead still believe in that message. My parents had basically nine vinyl albums, all greatest hits: the Beatles' red/blue albums, Carpenters, Neil Diamond, Elton John, the Beach Boys' Endless Summer, Jim Croce, Gordon Lightfoot and Creedence Gold. Eric Clapton we don't have to talk about it's obvious how amazing he is. They taught me and many other people a lot about life, people and music. Everything you wanted was right there, touchable to me, in that voice even when Wolf wasn't singing. He has that distinctive voice, and his range is staggering. He was a very personal guitarist; he played with more heart and soul than technique. Top row, from left, Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, and Marina Abramovi. I couldn't get in. Then Green came around, and suddenly this band was on a major label, playing arenas, and every human in America with two ears and access to radio was being demanded to "Stand." He sang Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come," and the audience wept. But the thing that caught my eye: She was wearing a Fables of the Reconstruction T-shirt. Motown took care of the North with their polished sound, but the MGs were gritty and raw, and they could really groove. Jerry is still one of the few guitarists where as soon as you hear him, you know instantly who it is. I met the Beastie Boys in Rick Rubin's dorm room at NYU. He's got some serious babymaking music. MTV had just started to sink its claws into people, and that song was like an anthem for coked-up adults trying to make sense of their world. My favorite line is "Wet bus stop/She's waiting/His car is warm and dry" he communicates the entire song with those 11 words. That's very necessary today, when irony is becoming a lost art. His songs weren't as political as Marvin Gaye and Donny Hathaway. You can grasp the chord progressions and melodies the first time you hear them. It was sold out. But Al Green is the show, and when you watch him perform, you see something honest and soulful and amazing. After I released my first solo album, I was doing a TV special in Memphis, and I called him and asked if he'd grace us with his presence. I lived in England, where it fucking rains all the time, so it was appropriate. Carl himself was a very bright guy, and very funny. Clapton was so moved by Johnson's music that he wanted to write and sing with the same passion, clarity and truth. Born in Austria, Never Mind the Bollocks is the root of everything that goes on at modern-rock radio. He's one of the greatest players who ever lived. Ranking the best of everything of the last 10 years. But he didn't get into dope because of us. The Beatles covered five of Carl's songs on record. To me, 'Pac was more of a poet than a rapper. There's no point where Jonny Greenwood or Ed O'Brien will suddenly look up and say, "Where the fuck are we?" I just shook her hand and tried to swallow. And now we realize that they're true masterpieces. Go home and turn off the radio. They did things with harmonics minor thirds and fifths that created this ethereal, monstrous sound. My children grew up loving the Temptations, and we tried to see them every time they came to town. And he would ball that fist up. Phil would get the track ready, then call upon the artist and say, "OK, now sing." And that is it, really. Duck was a great bass player, and very funny one of them good old Southern beer-drinking boys. Anybody who's serious about metal will tell you it all comes down to Sabbath. Otis Redding had his sound, Sam and Dave had theirs, Albert King had his own thing. I love singers whom you can identify the first second they open their mouth, and Levi Stubbs is one of those; he's one of the greatest of all time. You should always try to keep moving forward. He said, "It wasn't called heavy metal when I invented it." And they continue to rock on. People don't know him the way they should now. And they got the street that Muddy lived on most of his life named after him. Call it his refinement or the civility of intelligent life. We sang "Let's Stay Together" on that stage, and it was a milestone in my short, unimportant career. To me, it all sounded like music from heaven. You could hear his ethnicity in his music even when he's playing like some blues cat, he still sounds like Santana. Following Brian Eno's example, Reznor unpacked his synth and threw away the manual. Songs like "You Enjoy Myself" and "Split Open and Melt" were completely charted out because he had shown me it was possible. I had to suffer the philistines stealing my band silently. The fourth member, Addie "Micki" Harris, had died in 1982. Upon Lewis' death, Moore returned to the group in time for "Under the Boardwalk.". He takes artists with great potential and makes them even better. Run-DMC gave "Slow and Low" to the Beastie Boys. If, in the late Fifties and early Sixties, you were drawn to that place on the AM radio dial where the rhythms, the grooves and the beautiful sounds of African-American soul were playing, you would have found Curtis Mayfield. It didn't have to be about music. 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. Their management changed the lineup in 1958, and that's when the great Ben E. King came into the picture. started out, Dave's solo on that song was the only solo I knew how to play. And Tom is such a great singer and so charismatic onstage. Then I get ready to go into my next project. Carl was the real deal a true rockabilly cat. We were 10 feet from Jerry Garcia, and you could see how that audience zeroed in on him. Vincent van Gogh. The truth is that when Tina came back in the Eighties, she became much bigger than she was the first time around. And it opened up my mind to the mighty force of nature that is Metallica. Later you had Roger Waters evoking these big, universal landscapes of human crises. Web50 years of rolling stone new book celebrates visual. As you read this book, remember: This is what we have to live up to. And of course, both bands have a singer with a really high-end voice that cuts through all the chaos below. We'd play cards and shoot pool together into the early hours. I identified with Joe Perry's image, both soundwise and visually. MTV's Total Request Live debuted in September 1998. On songs like "Tired of Being Alone," the horns are tasteful and restrained but completely funky. For almost 30 years my entire career, really all I've been doing is trying to discover another Diana Ross. The audience's reaction to those classics cemented their value in my head. 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. Their music talks to you, in a real way. Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. fan, happy to venture beyond the pale of the radio singles, was a rare thing. That bugged me out. Yet for all their fantastic records, the Drifters had the least stable lineup of any of the great vocal groups. He's a poet with a punk's heart. But what makes him such an inspiration is the raw passion, the sincerity and the joy he brings to his music. At first, he made a gospel-like call to rise up, get on board, get ready. All rights reserved. When Zappa turned his back on the audience to play with Chad, I saw this huge smile on his face. It's a beautiful piece of music played by an awesome rocker of a young man who was a masterpiece of a human being. There's not a fake bone in his body. 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