The Secret History of Rock

He’s settled down substantially now, but for many years, Liam Gallagher liked to get drunk and get into fights.  And quite a few times, he had the crap beaten out of him.  Take,

While they were around, the Ramones never sold a lot of records.  In fact, they had just one gold record—and that was a greatest hits collection.  The Ramones made all their money on

Simon Bernstein used to work as a waiter in this bar in Newport Beach, California, but what he really wanted to do was perform. He then got a job which involved lip-synching to

In the early days of Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder was determined to maintain his “everyman” status.  He would be the anti-rock star, a person befitting Pearl Jam’s “band of the people” stance.  On

The Sex Pistols released just one proper studio album and when it came out in 1977, it was the subject of a huge obscenity trial over its title, Never Mind the Bollocks.  I

When a band records a song that was written and recorded by someone else, we call this a “cover version.”  Covers have always been popular.  Bands get to play some of their all-time

Oasis fans will remember Tony McCarroll as the original drummer for Oasis for the first album.  But then Noel Gallagher fired him before the Morning Glory album came out in 1995.  For a

Back in 2002, a British pub was fined about $12,000 when a couple of patrons were found dancing.  Yes, I said dancing. Undercover pub cops used to regularly patrol establishments across the UK looking

Smart artists know that their careers could come to an end at any time, which is why they do what they can to diversify their skillsets so that they’ll have a way to