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On May 15, 1986, Run-D.M.C. released Raising Hell; an album that didn’t just change hip-hop, it changed popular music itself.

Their collaboration with Aerosmith on “Walk This Way” shattered the wall between rock and rap, proving the two genres could collide and create something bigger than either one alone. The ripple effects are still felt today.

I explored that genre-blurring moment here:
https://sonicpulsereviews.com/whats-in-a-music-genre/

#RunDMC #RaisingHell #WalkThisWay #Aerosmith #HipHopHistory #RockHistory #Music

12 Most Controversial Metal Album Covers Ever - And Why They Were Banned Worldwide #HeavyMetal #MetalHeads #MetalCommunity #AlbumArt #MusicHistory
#ControversialCovers #BannedArt #RockHistory #MetalCulture
#MusicFacts #DidYouKnow #UnbelievableButTrue https://www.gsnsp.com/controversial-heavy-metal-album-covers/

🇬🇧 David Bowie "Rock ’n’ Roll Star!" – 2024

A curated release focusing on Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era, capturing the explosive rise of his early-70s breakthrough period. The release compiles studio material, live recordings, and alternate takes that document the transition into one of his most iconic artistic phases...

#davidbowie #glamrock #archiverelease #rockhistory #vinylcommunity #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening

Vinylsamstag: @mc5alive - Kick Out The Jams! 1966–1970 (2012) 🇺🇸

#vinylsamstag #semmehorcht #vinylsaturday #vinylmatinee #mc5 #kickoutthejams #detroitrock #protopunk #garagepunk #highenergyrocknroll #punkbeforepunk #rocknrollrevolution #vinylcollection #vinylcollector #vinylcommunity #vinyligclub #vinyljunkie #nowspinning #spinningnow #recordcollection #ontheturntable #albumoftheday #classicrecord #americanrock #70srock #punkrockhistory #loudrecords #detroitmusic #rockhistory #vinylpost

#music #musicians #REM

#TrashTheory #musicchannel

#musichistory #rockhistory

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Snd8klIZjAE&pp=ygUOICByZW0gZG9jdW1lbnTSBwkJ2woBhyohjO8%3D

🎤✨ Ah, the Ramones: the band that brought us #punk and the eternal lesson that it's not the #music that matters, but the merch! 😆🎸 Fifty years later, their greatest hit was apparently a T-shirt cannon. 🛍️🔥
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-03-17/the-uncomfortable-truth-that-will-always-haunt-the-ramones-they-sold-more-t-shirts-than-records.html #Ramones #Merchandising #TShirtCannon #RockHistory #HackerNews #ngated

🎤✨ Ah, the Ramones: the band that brought us #punk and the eternal lesson that it's not the #music that matters, but the merch! 😆🎸 Fifty years later, their greatest hit was apparently a T-shirt cannon. 🛍️🔥
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-03-17/the-uncomfortable-truth-that-will-always-haunt-the-ramones-they-sold-more-t-shirts-than-records.html #Ramones #Merchandising #TShirtCannon #RockHistory #HackerNews #ngated

🎤✨ Ah, the Ramones: the band that brought us #punk and the eternal lesson that it's not the #music that matters, but the merch! 😆🎸 Fifty years later, their greatest hit was apparently a T-shirt cannon. 🛍️🔥
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-03-17/the-uncomfortable-truth-that-will-always-haunt-the-ramones-they-sold-more-t-shirts-than-records.html #Ramones #Merchandising #TShirtCannon #RockHistory #HackerNews #ngated

🎤✨ Ah, the Ramones: the band that brought us #punk and the eternal lesson that it's not the #music that matters, but the merch! 😆🎸 Fifty years later, their greatest hit was apparently a T-shirt cannon. 🛍️🔥
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-03-17/the-uncomfortable-truth-that-will-always-haunt-the-ramones-they-sold-more-t-shirts-than-records.html #Ramones #Merchandising #TShirtCannon #RockHistory #HackerNews #ngated

🎤✨ Ah, the Ramones: the band that brought us #punk and the eternal lesson that it's not the #music that matters, but the merch! 😆🎸 Fifty years later, their greatest hit was apparently a T-shirt cannon. 🛍️🔥
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-03-17/the-uncomfortable-truth-that-will-always-haunt-the-ramones-they-sold-more-t-shirts-than-records.html #Ramones #Merchandising #TShirtCannon #RockHistory #HackerNews #ngated

The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-03-17/the-uncomfortable-truth-that-will-always-haunt-the-ramones-they-sold-more-t-shirts-than-records.html

#HackerNews #Ramones #TShirts #MusicIndustry #RockHistory #PunkLegend

59 years ago today

The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Velvet Underground and the German singer Nico, releasd March 12, 1967

#punkrock #protopunk #thevelvetunderground #masterpiece #history #rockhistory #punkrockhistory

Backstage Burrow Ep2-2026

🎸🐰 From quiet strummer to cultural thunder — how the electric guitar found its voice.
Take a cozy hop into the hidden history of amplification, innovation, and rebellious noise as we trace the guitar’s journey from back‑row rhythm keeper to electrified icon. From Hawaiian lap steels to “broomstick with pickups” prototypes, this episode uncovers how marginalized musicians, bold tinkerers, and a few happy accidents reshaped American sound.

Major source for this episode: Braun, Hans-Joachim. "Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century." Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

#electricguitar #musichistory #20thcentury #backstageburrow #rabbithole #rockhistory #musictechnology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf8fxh6THKo&feature=youtu.be

Dandelion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxOpl37tysw

This is 60s Rolling Stones - but...
Listen to the harmony & you'll hear Beatles.

I just watched a Keith Richards interview where he mentioned the actual good relationship between the band and noted that John & Paul sang the background harmonies here, "because they liked the Rolling Stones too". I'll bet anyone that knows early Stones hasn't heard this in a while!

#RollingStones #Beatles #ClassicRock #RockHistory #music #musica #musique #musik #Dandelion

This Rock & Blues outfit (who had previously almost changed the course of musical history) are enjoying what would turn out to be their final visit so far to the UK Singles Chart as they visit the week of my 2nd birthday...

#UKSinglesChart #MedicineHead #SlipAndSlide #DarkSideOfTheMoon #1974Music #PinkFloydHistory #BritishBlues #RockHistory #MusicFunFacts #RetroMusic #ChartHits #70sRock #MusicTrivia #VintageCharts #BluesRock

https://thearchiveofmylife.com/no-25-on-the-top-50-official-u-k-singles-chart-on-my-2nd-birthday/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

With Ronnie's role with the Faces now just a memory, the co-founder of both that group and its predecessor the Small Faces, was now striding out into new territory...

#ClassicRock #RockMusic #70sMusic #MusicHistory #UKCharts #1970s #RetroMusic #BritishRock #RockHistory #Vinyl #SmallFaces #RonnieLane #SlimChance #HowCome #FacesBand #ModRock #FolkRock

https://thearchiveofmylife.com/no-32-on-the-top-50-official-u-k-singles-chart-on-my-2nd-birthday/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

With Ronnie's role with the Faces now just a memory, the co-founder of both that group and its predecessor the Small Faces, was now striding out into new territory...

#ClassicRock #RockMusic #70sMusic #MusicHistory #UKCharts #1970s #RetroMusic #BritishRock #RockHistory #Vinyl #SmallFaces #RonnieLane #SlimChance #HowCome #FacesBand #ModRock #FolkRock

https://thearchiveofmylife.com/no-32-on-the-top-50-official-u-k-singles-chart-on-my-2nd-birthday/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

With Ronnie's role with the Faces now just a memory, the co-founder of both that group and its predecessor the Small Faces, was now striding out into new territory...

#ClassicRock #RockMusic #70sMusic #MusicHistory #UKCharts #1970s #RetroMusic #BritishRock #RockHistory #Vinyl #SmallFaces #RonnieLane #SlimChance #HowCome #FacesBand #ModRock #FolkRock

https://thearchiveofmylife.com/no-32-on-the-top-50-official-u-k-singles-chart-on-my-2nd-birthday/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

With Ronnie's role with the Faces now just a memory, the co-founder of both that group and its predecessor the Small Faces, was now striding out into new territory...

#ClassicRock #RockMusic #70sMusic #MusicHistory #UKCharts #1970s #RetroMusic #BritishRock #RockHistory #Vinyl #SmallFaces #RonnieLane #SlimChance #HowCome #FacesBand #ModRock #FolkRock

https://thearchiveofmylife.com/no-32-on-the-top-50-official-u-k-singles-chart-on-my-2nd-birthday/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

With Ronnie's role with the Faces now just a memory, the co-founder of both that group and its predecessor the Small Faces, was now striding out into new territory...

#ClassicRock #RockMusic #70sMusic #MusicHistory #UKCharts #1970s #RetroMusic #BritishRock #RockHistory #Vinyl #SmallFaces #RonnieLane #SlimChance #HowCome #FacesBand #ModRock #FolkRock

https://thearchiveofmylife.com/no-32-on-the-top-50-official-u-k-singles-chart-on-my-2nd-birthday/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

#Pouetradio 🤩
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (Live @ NPA - 17/02/1997)
Morceau extrait de l'album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) pour l'émission Nulle Part Ailleurs, un grand moment 💙
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FwemvJU8j4&list=RD3FwemvJU8j4&start_radio=1&pp=ygUPTlBBIGRhdmlkIEJvd2lloAcB
#DavidBowie #80s #RockHistory #Live_music

¿Te imaginas a ZZ Top sin sus míticas barbas? En los años 80, la banda rechazó una oferta de un millón de dólares por miembro ...
#zztop #billygibbons #rock #classicrock #rockhistory #musicnews #rocklegends #barbas #imagenrock #rockandroll #80srock #rockculture

https://rockandblog.net/zz-top-la-oferta-millonaria-que-rechazaron-en-los-80/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

https://youtu.be/QQFXPVZrdaw

1975 was, on many levels, a very good year.

For #Music #culture #civilization #peace #hope & many a legend, in film, literature, sports, science, rights...

HAPPY 50th ANNIVERSARY!

Coincidentally reminded of a favorite band in that era - and I know many 'here' weren't alive! Maybe 'new'.

Good times. Then and now (for some?)

But sometimes,

"It Just Ain't Your Moon"

#Music #RockHistory #1975 #ClassicRock #AtlantaRhythmSection #musica #musique #musik #DogDays

Iron Maiden’s “Aces High” never lands—it lives in the loop between story and song. A four-minute dogfight where tension replaces resolution, and history becomes adrenaline. ✈️⚡️
#IronMaiden #AcesHigh #Powerslave #HeavyMetalHistory #MusicAnalysis #Songwriting #RockHistory #BattleOfBritain #BruceDickinson #SteveHarris #ClassicMetal #MusicEssay #MetalCulture
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/the-loop-of-combat-form-and-function-in-iron-maidens-aerial-anthem/

In memory Lou Reed 🖤

March 2, 1942 - October 27, 2013

Lou Reed - A Walk On The Wild Side (Live at Farm Aid 1985)

#punk #protopunk #loureed #thevelvetunderground #history #rockhistory #punkrockhistory #otd

If "Custard Pie" is what Page and Plant stole from American blues, they can keep it.
#LedZeppelin #PhysicalGraffiti #RockCriticism #MusicWriting #ClassicRock #RobertPlant #JimmyPage #RockHistory #MusicAnalysis #Essay
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/bakers-of-the-blues-how-custard-pie-spoils-physical-graffiti/

Ace Frehley, Rock Legend and KISS Guitarist, Dead at 74

#AceFrehley #KISS #RockLegend #RockAndRoll #MusicIcon #RockHistory #RockStar #KISSFans #MusicNews #entertainmentnews #PaulStanley #GeneSimmons #PeterCriss #TommyThayer #EricSinger #annakarolinaheinrich

https://news-annakarolinaheinrich.com/kiss-icon-ace-frehley-passes-away-at-74-following-brain-bleed

Andy Warhol, Annie Lennox, Tommy Shaw, Frank Zappa and Paul Stanley !
#rock #art #rockhistory

Remembering Christa Päffgen aka Nico, born on this day in 1938, Cologne, Germany.

Photo by Cordon Press

#punk #punkrock #womenofpunk #nico #thevelvetunderground #history #rockhistory #otd

When Judas Priest wrote “Brain Dead,” they must have thought, “Well, our new lead singer is already ripping off our old lead singer, so we might as well halfheartedly rip another band off while we’re at it.”
#JudasPriest #Metallica #HeavyMetal #MusicCriticism #RockHistory #MusicEssay #SongAnalysis #Neuroscience #PhilosophyOfMusic #90sMetal #Borges #MusicWriting #CulturalCritique
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/judas-priests-brain-dead/

They Sabotaged Their OWN Concert As Punishment #shorts - YouTube

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/I5K8doc5fIA

#Nirvana vs #Misogynist Audience

#music #musicians #Argentina #rockhistory #musichistory

Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake & Palmer performs in Copenhagen in June 1972. #rock #art #rockhistory

Queen Open Up on the Making of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ at 50! Brian May and Roger Taylor on Queen’s Masterpiece

Making the most-streamed song from the 20th century took ambition, hard work, and a dash of opera

September 24, 2025

Their real life was about to slip into fantasy, which was pretty much the plan. At the tail end of the 1960s, Roger Taylor and Freddie Bulsara would lie on the floor together, head to head, getting lost in Electric Ladyland, talking about their future.

Maybe they’d share a bottle of wine, nothing stronger. “Fred and I were no good at smoking weed,” Taylor says, more than five decades later. “I used to think my head was on fire at the back. It never did agree.” 

Even before Bulsara joined the band that became Queen and renamed himself Freddie Mercury, he and Taylor shared a velvet-heavy fashion sense, a passion for Jimi Hendrix, and some fat-bottomed ambitions. “We wanted to be the best,” says Taylor. “We both really wanted success.” Queen’s drummer is, at the moment, sitting in a vast living room on his 18th-century estate in the British countryside, amid 48 wooded acres. He might not have made it here without the song we’re here to discuss, the moment Queen reached as far as any band ever dared, then went a bit further, and then added a few more “Galileos” for good measure: “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary. 

The track, first played on U.K. radio in October 1975 and squeezed onto a seven-­inch single at the end of that month, has become the most-streamed song from the 20th century, with more than 2.8 billion plays on Spotify alone. “Incredible,” Brian May says when I visit him the next day. “‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ doesn’t get old, does it? And I suppose that’s the magic for us. We’re lucky that we don’t get old.” He pauses and makes a slight correction. “The music doesn’t seem to get old.”

The statistic leaves little doubt: Queen’s biggest song is on its way to becoming the rock era’s most lasting artifact, Figaro, Beelzebub, and all. “Bohemian Rhapsody” is a five-minute-and-54-second remnant of a brief slice of time when musicians could afford to spend weeks slathering overdubs onto a single track, when engineers made edits with a razor on magnetic tape, when bands raced to push the limits of song structure and recording technology, and maybe when, as Taylor caustically argues, “you actually had to be good at your instrument — that doesn’t seem to be a necessary requisite these days.” Even as Queen labored over “Rhapsody” and the rest of their fourth album, A Night at the Opera, the clock was ticking. Two weeks before the album’s release, the Sex Pistols played their first show in London.

(To hear an audio documentary version of this article on our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, press play above, or go to Apple Podcasts or Spotify.)

The song is also, of course, an eternal encapsulation of the brilliance, wit, and pain of its lead voice and composer, Freddie Mercury, who died of complications from AIDS in 1991 when he was just 45. “In certain areas, we feel that we want to go overboard,” he said. “It’s what keeps us going really, darling.… We’re probably the fussiest band in the world.”

On a pleasant late-spring morning, Taylor’s side doors are flung open to his sprawling garden. Somewhere out there, not quite in sight, is a 20-foot-high fiberglass statue of Mercury that once advertised the We Will Rock You musical.

Taylor is positive his late friend would’ve found its new home hilarious. Elsewhere among the greenery is the very same 60-inch gong we hear Taylor strike in the final seconds of “Rhapsody.”  “I remember Led Zeppelin had a gong,” Taylor says with a smirk. “So we had a much bigger gong. Pathetic one-up­manship, really.”

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Queen Open Up on the Making of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

#1975 #2025 #20thCentury #50thAnniversary #BohemianRhapsody #Education #FreddieMercury #History #Libraries #Music #Queen #RockHistory #RockMusic #RogerTaylor #Spotify #UK_ #YouTube

How One Song Made Stars But Left Its Creators Forgotten - YouTube

Trigger Warning : 13.06 min mark & 13.46 min mark, mention of s**c*de. Please take care. ☮️

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2sWKUno5VPU

#RockHistory #MusicIndustrySUCKS #Badfinger #WithoutYou #Music #musicians

How One Song Made Stars But Left Its Creators Forgotten - YouTube

Trigger Warning : 13.06 min mark & 13.46 min mark, mention of s**c*de. Please take care. ☮️

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2sWKUno5VPU

#RockHistory #MusicIndustrySUCKS #Badfinger #WithoutYou #Music #musicians

https://500songs.com/?s=never+learn+not+to+love

#500Songs
#HistoryOfRockIn500Songs

4 part series : Never Learn Not to Love

#ExploitationOfBlackMusicians

#CharlesManson #Ledbetter

#HuddieWilliamLedbetter (he hated the nickname #Leadbelly)

#MusicIndustrySUCKS #BeachBoys #music #musicians #musichistory #rockhistory #antiblackracism

#JohnLomax was a #whitesupremacist piece of shit

#JohnLomaxRACISTscumbag

https://www.musicradar.com/artists/we-came-off-stage-and-looked-at-each-other-in-amazement-because-all-that-singing-from-the-audience-was-so-extreme-and-i-said-to-freddie-maybe-we-should-be-harnessing-this-kind-of-energy-how-queen-created-the-mother-of-all-rock-anthems

#musichistory #rockhistory #rockanthem

https://www.musicradar.com/artists/we-came-off-stage-and-looked-at-each-other-in-amazement-because-all-that-singing-from-the-audience-was-so-extreme-and-i-said-to-freddie-maybe-we-should-be-harnessing-this-kind-of-energy-how-queen-created-the-mother-of-all-rock-anthems

#musichistory #rockhistory #rockanthem

https://www.musicradar.com/artists/we-came-off-stage-and-looked-at-each-other-in-amazement-because-all-that-singing-from-the-audience-was-so-extreme-and-i-said-to-freddie-maybe-we-should-be-harnessing-this-kind-of-energy-how-queen-created-the-mother-of-all-rock-anthems

#musichistory #rockhistory #rockanthem

https://www.musicradar.com/artists/we-came-off-stage-and-looked-at-each-other-in-amazement-because-all-that-singing-from-the-audience-was-so-extreme-and-i-said-to-freddie-maybe-we-should-be-harnessing-this-kind-of-energy-how-queen-created-the-mother-of-all-rock-anthems

#musichistory #rockhistory #rockanthem

https://www.musicradar.com/artists/we-came-off-stage-and-looked-at-each-other-in-amazement-because-all-that-singing-from-the-audience-was-so-extreme-and-i-said-to-freddie-maybe-we-should-be-harnessing-this-kind-of-energy-how-queen-created-the-mother-of-all-rock-anthems

#musichistory #rockhistory #rockanthem

Hampus Fickelton spent a day with Sister Rain’s Aslak Nygren — from studio sessions to a punctured rubber boat on the Glomma.

36 years of rock, mischief, and friendship.

A good read before the weekend.

📄 Sister Rain’s Unstoppable Rock Revival
🔗 Link in bio or visit rabagasmagazine.no

#SisterRain #AslakNygren #NorwegianRock #RockHistory #MusicFeature #MusicMagazine #RABAGAS #Fredrikstad #Glomma #RocknRoll #BandLife #MusicLegends #TripleAlbum #MusicInterview

⚡️ AC/DC Are You Ready PWR UP World Tour 2025 Australia Map Tee just launched!
This two-sided unisex shirt features the iconic Australia tour route—built for true fans who crave rock history and on-stage adrenaline.
🛒 Limited drop. Hit the bio and join the thunder!

#ACDC #PWRUPTour #AustraliaMap #TourMerch #UnisexTee #RockHistory #AreYouReady

And suddenly, it felt like everyone disappeared, lost in the magic of Queen's sound. The music enveloped us, creating a moment where nothing else mattered. It was just Freddie's voice and the powerful melodies, transporting us to a place where we could all feel connected, regardless of time or distance. That’s the beauty of Queen’s music - it has the power to unite us, even in silence.

#Queen #FreddieMercury #LiveAid #MusicLegends #RockHistory #IconicPerformance #BohemianRhapsody #RadioGaGa #IsThisTheWorldWeCreated #LiveMusic #MusicMemories #TimelessMusic #ConcertMemories #MusicUnites #ClassicRock

Nevermind, an album on major chords

https://farina00.github.io/essays/nevermind/

#HackerNews #Nevermind #album #majorchords #musicanalysis #chordtheory #rockhistory

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/robert-plant-mauricio-sobalvarro.html #RobertPlant
#SirRobertPlant
#LedZeppelin
#RockStar
#RockAndRoll
#ClassicRock
#LeadVocalist
#WholeLottaLove
#StairwayToHeaven
#RockMusic
#HardRock
#IconicHair
#MusicIcon
#GrammyWinner
#RobertPlantLedZeppelin
#RockLegend
#RockConcert
#LedZeppelinTour
#MusicArtistry
#Artistic
#RockGuitar
#SoloArtist
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#RockTribute
#RockHistory

La misteriosa relación entre el Beatle y el infame ocultista que ha intrigado a fans por décadas.

🎵 La visita que despertó recuerdos

Con la reciente visita de Paul McCartney a Monterrey, mi mente viajó a esos días de investigación obsesiva sobre una de las teorías más fascinantes del rock: la supuesta conexión entre el ex-Beatle y el notorious ocultista Aleister Crowley.

🐰 Cayendo en la madriguera del conejo

¿Quién pensaría que los Beatles, aquellos chicos de Liverpool que conquistaron el mundo con canciones de amor adolescente, terminarían siendo el portal hacia los misterios más profundos del ocultismo? Todo comenzó como suele suceder: inocentemente. Un día estás escuchando «Yesterday» y al siguiente te encuentras sumergido en foros de internet analizando mensajes ocultos en grabaciones reproducidas al revés, estudiando símbolos esotéricos en portadas de álbumes y conectando puntos que aparentemente no tenían relación.

💿 El portal Sgt. Pepper

La icónica portada del «Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band» (1967) fue mi puerta de entrada. Entre la multitud de rostros famosos, ahí estaba él: Aleister Crowley, «La Bestia 666» 😈, mirando misteriosamente entre la galaxia de celebridades. Esta no fue una elección casual. Crowley, conocido como «La Bestia 666» 😈, había fallecido en 1947, pero su influencia en la contracultura de los 60 era innegable. Su filosofía del «Haz lo que quieras» resonaba fuertemente con la revolución cultural de la época.

🔍 Las conexiones más profundas

La presencia de Crowley en la portada es solo la punta del iceberg. Los investigadores han señalado numerosas conexiones:

• El lugar de nacimiento de Paul coincide con áreas de actividad de Crowley
• Las fechas significativas en la vida de ambos personajes muestran patrones interesantes
• La transformación musical de los Beatles coincide con el período en que supuestamente Paul fue «reemplazado»
• Elementos de misticismo oriental que tanto Crowley como los Beatles exploraron
• El uso de símbolos y referencias ocultas en las canciones posteriores a 1966

🌐 La era dorada de los foros: 2005-2013

Hace más de una década, internet era un lugar diferente. Existía todo un universo de foros y sitios web dedicados a estas teorías:

Internet de principios de los 2000 era un territorio salvaje y sin regular, perfecto para que florecieran estas teorías. Durante esta época dorada, existía una red internacional de investigadores aficionados que compartían hallazgos en foros dedicados. Sitios web como «The Paul Is Dead Archives», «Beatles Conspiracy Forum» y «Crowley’s Connection» albergaban extensas investigaciones que incluían:

📚 Investigaciones detalladas

• Análisis forense de fotografías de Paul antes y después de 1966
• Estudios de voz comparando grabaciones tempranas y tardías
• Documentación sobre la vida de Crowley y sus conexiones con la élite británica
• Testimonios de personas que trabajaron con los Beatles en los 60
• Análisis numerológico de fechas y eventos significativos

🎭 La teoría del reemplazo

La teoría central sugiere que el Paul original fue reemplazado por un doble, apodado «Faul» por los fans. Este reemplazo supuestamente tendría conexiones con Crowley, ya sea como descendiente directo o como parte de un elaborado plan ocultista. Las «evidencias» incluyen:

• Cambios en la escritura y firma de Paul
• Diferencias en su altura y rasgos faciales
• Modificaciones en su estilo musical y preferencias personales
• El súbito interés de la banda por el ocultismo y el misticismo
• La inclusión de «pistas» en canciones y portadas de álbumes

💻 El legado digital y la evolución de la teoría

Aunque muchos de los foros originales han desaparecido, su influencia persiste en la cultura popular moderna:

🌟 Recursos que sobreviven

• Archivos preservados en Wayback Machine
• Documentales independientes en YouTube
• Grupos de Facebook dedicados a la investigación
• Podcasts que exploran estas teorías
• Nuevos análisis que incorporan tecnología moderna

📱 La teoría en la era moderna

Las redes sociales han dado nueva vida a estas especulaciones:

• Hilos de Twitter que conectan nuevos puntos
• Subreddits dedicados a analizar evidencia histórica
• Instagram accounts que publican comparativas fotográficas

🤔 Reflexión sobre el impacto cultural

Más allá de su veracidad, esta teoría representa algo más profundo en la cultura pop:

• La necesidad humana de encontrar significados ocultos
• La fascinación por lo esotérico en la música popular
• La influencia duradera de los Beatles en la cultura
• La intersección entre arte, música y misticismo
• La forma en que las leyendas urbanas evolucionan en la era digital

⭐ Conclusión: El misterio continúa

Cada nueva aparición de McCartney, como el reciente concierto en Monterrey, añade un nuevo capítulo a esta fascinante historia. La teoría de la conexión Crowley-McCartney, aunque nunca probada, nos recuerda que la mejor música siempre contiene un elemento de misterio y que los Beatles, más que una simple banda, son un portal hacia exploraciones más profundas de la cultura y la conciencia humana.

https://elblogdelascuriosidades.com.mx/2024/11/09/paul-mccartney-aleister-crowley-conexion-secreta-beatles-teoria/

#60sMusic #AleisterCrowley #beatles #BeatlesFacts #BeatlesMystery #ConspiracyTheories #MusicHistory #MusicLegends #OccultRock #PaulIsDead #PaulMcCartney #RockHistory #RockNRoll #SgtPepper #TheBeatlesToday

I’ve been a Prog Rock fan since I first discovered Rush in 1981. I was 10 years old and most of what Prog bands did went way over my head, but there was something about Rush that clicked with me. Not long after it was Yes. Then Pink Floyd. Then Genesis. Then King Crimson. And so on and so on.

The 1980’s though, were a pretty dark time for Prog. First we had Asia, which included members of Yes, King Crimson, and Emerson Lake and Palmer, releasing their very commercial, radio friendly, MTV orientated first record which blew away the album and singles charts in 1982. Then a year later we had Yes releasing 90125 in similar financially friendly fashion. Genesis had descended into a hellish pop music abyss by then as well (though there was still good in them if you were able to look past the chart topping crap), and while it would take a few years for them to catch up, even Pink Floyd released a pretty radio friendly record. Rush and King Crimson both morphed into an 80’s sound without really caving into the pop music world, at least not to my ears. I get the impression that Robert Fripp was trying to bend pop music to his own personal will (if anyone could have done it, it was him) while Rush just kept making Rush sounding records that happened to embrace 80’s technology (arguably to their detriment, but also maybe arguably to their benefit).

In other words, prog rock in the 70’s was awesome. Prog rock in the 80’s was… less awesome (though still better than almost anything else… except for some specific Genesis songs [looking at you, Illegal Alien and Invisible Touch]).

But there was one question that I never asked myself, or anyone else for that matter… did I miss anyone? Were there any other bands that I should have been listening to that I wasn’t?

Apparently the answer is yes, yes there was.

Marillion.

Well, there were probably 20-30 bands that I should have listened to but never did (Gentle Giant and Camel come to mind, but not Jethro Tull. Fuck Jethro Tull. I can’t stand that friggin’ band), but I don’t know why Marillion never came up. I think it might be as simple as they were not very big in the United States. They apparently were huge in the UK for a little while at least, and I was actually paying attention to the industry as a whole at that time (their biggest record came out in 1985, the same year as Power Windows by Rush, which I bought the minute it hit the record store shelves). Was that the only reason I never listened to them?

I have been aware of them for ages, of course. Was I aware of them before the internet? If it really was a regional (US vs UK) thing that kept me from them, then the internet would have been what put them on my radar. Recently they have been showing up in a bunch of places online where I happened to have been looking. A few months ago I made a note to check them out on a streaming service somewhere. I don’t recall what made me want to do that, but it was something. I didn’t do it until this past weekend though. Their guitar player was a guest on That Pedal Show and I figured I should at least listen to their biggest record, Misplaced Childhood, before I watched it. I did. I liked it. I thought the record had a sort of 70’s Genesis vibe to it. It was very 80’s, but not in a bad way (and me calling something “very 80’s” is usually meant as a negative).

I thought they dated back to the early 70’s like all of the more important prog bands but no, their first album was in 1982 or 83 (according to the two minutes I spent digging around wikipedia). I think if I had known about them at that time I probably would have gone completely off the deep end for them. They would have been a legit prog band that wasn’t devolving into a commercial/pop shadow of their former selves the way most of the prog acts from the 70s did. I knew they had two singers and that the changing of singers sort of mark different eras of the band, but I didn’t realize the first singer left as quickly as he did (after the forth album).

Yesterday I googled “list of best albums by Marillion” and found one random site that ranked them from worst to best. I listened to the 4-5 “best” albums on the list during the work day and liked most of what I heard, though I have to admit I wasn’t listening all that closely because, ya know, work.

I guess the point of this post is to get myself to accept that while I am a total prog rock snob, there are still a lot of things I don’t know about. Maybe it’s time to start taking advantage of streaming music services (ick) and start digging into the catalogs of some of those bands. Just not Jethro Tull or Dream Theater. I fucking hate both of those bands.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/07/23/i-missed-them-completely/

#70SRock #80SRock #artRock #englishProgRock #englishProgressiveRock #englishRock #fandom #geekRock #genesis #KingCrimson #marillion #Music #musicFan #nerdRock #PinkFloyd #progRock #progRockMusic #progressiveRock #progressiveRockMusic #rockHistory #rockMusic #Rush #Yes

john lennon and the plastic ono band
sweet toronto 1969

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-GfXg5QrKpc&si=Py1GwxbjDzvgUiS7

#plasticonoband #rockhistory #toronto

Me and Mr Jones by Suzi Ronson review – Stardust memories of David Bowie’s hairdresser | Autobiography and memoir
#books #Music #DavidBowie #MickRonson #rockhistory

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/17/me-and-mr-jones-by-suzi-ronson-review-stardust-memories-of-david-bowies-hairdresser