Ray Davies wrote "You Really Got Me" in the family home in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964, and his younger brother Dave achieved the sound by slashing a razor blade through his amplifier speaker cone.
In November 2014 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds issued Do the Damage as the B-side of In the Heat of the Moment, on Sour Mash.
Stewart Copeland, Sting, and Andy Summers built five albums in five years by mixing reggae off-beats, jazz-trained chord work, and new-wave energy in a trio format that radio kept on the air.
In June 1972, David Bowie released The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars on RCA, cut at Trident with Ken Scott and Mick Ronson.
In September 2019 Warner released Liam Gallagher's second solo album Why Me? Why Not., cut with Greg Kurstin, Andrew Wyatt and Simon Aldred between London and Los Angeles.
In London in 1962, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts locked a blues and R&B repertoire into a working band that refused to stay a club act.
Gibson introduced the Les Paul model in 1952 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, after guitarist Les Paul pressed the company for a solid-body electric that would hold tuning and resist feedback at high stage volume. Earlier experiments included Les Paul’s “Log.” Early Goldtops combined mahogany bodies with
On 21 August 1997 Creation released Be Here Now, cut across Abbey Road, AIR, Orinoco, Master Rock and Ridge Farm with Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher producing.
In June 1968, Pink Floyd released A Saucerful of Secrets on EMI Columbia, the only studio album to feature both Syd Barrett and David Gilmour on the same tracklist.
