'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' by David Bowie was released 54 years ago today. 💿🎶 As David Bowie’s most recognisable and well-known alter-ego, Ziggy Stardust also felt like the most fleshed out, with a background, a plotline, and a message,…
On this day in 1967, The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' reached #1 in the U.K. Recorded over 700 hours and featuring printed lyrics for the first time on a rock album, it spent 27 weeks atop the chart and helped redefine what an album could be.
It's official... This morning New York City officially and permanently co-named West 8th Street as Jimi Hendrix Way. 💜 The new street sign unveiled today at the corner of 6th Avenue and West 8th Street is just down the street from Jimi Hendrix's landmark Electric Lady Studios in the heart of Greenwich Village. Stay Experienced!
George Harrison and Eric Clapton hanging out at the Blue Coat Boy pub in London on December 1, 1969. This is such a great look at a massive turning point for George. Things were getting pretty suffocating with The Beatles right around this time, so he decided to clear his head by tag-teaming onto Delaney & Bonnie’s tour as an uncredited sideman.
They took this photo on the very first day of the UK tour, right around their shows at the Royal Albert Hall. Did anyone out there actually catch this lineup on the Delaney & Bonnie tour back in the winter of '69? If you have any stories or memories from those shows, drop them in the comments! 👇
On this day in 1967, The Beatles released 'Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band', a record that expanded the possibilities of popular music through studio innovation, orchestral ambition, and fearless imagination. Its influence still echoes through every era that followed.
On this day in 1973, Pink Floyd released "The Dark Side Of The Moon."
It has remained on the Billboard 200 Album Charts for 996 weeks so far, longer than any other album in history.