The Concert I Walked Out Of
Last month, I wrote about two occasions I can remember when I walked out of a movie because it was so bad. Yesterday, my friend David Craig and I were discussing concerts we'd seen, and I flashed back to one of those that I walked out of, too. In the 1990s, we were...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Andy Greene of Rolling Stone fact-checked the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody" and found several things it got wrong. Among them: The group never split up. The movie veers the furthest from reality in the build-up to their 1985 performance at Live Aid. There’s a dramatic...
Concert Review: Postmodern Jukebox
Two years ago, I raved about Postmodern Jukebox after seeing them in concert for the first time. Afterwards, my wife said, "We have to see them again next time they're in town." They returned last night, and we were there to see them put on another fantastic show. PMJ...
Ten Questions For Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney has been on a publicity tear over the last month to promote his new album, "Egypt Station." Last night, he was on "60 Minutes" in what was billed as "a wide-ranging interview" by Sharyn Alfonsi, who opened with this: How is it that we enter the 51st...
Album Recommendation: Roy Zimmerman “RiZe Up”
I'm a big fan of Roy Zimmerman. As a song parodist, he's a cross between Tom Lehrer and Mark Russell, writing clever, biting lyrics about topical issues. My family and I saw Roy perform at James Randi's Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas in 2008, and I've subscribed to the...
How Is McCartney #1?
Paul McCartney's "Egypt Station" is the #1 album in the US -- without any substantial radio airplay. How? As Fred Jacobs explains, the album came with a brilliant content marketing...
Concert Review: Ringo Starr
Thanks for coming out in the rain...as if that’s a big thing. I’m from England, where it always rains. -- Ringo Starr When Paul McCartney goes on tour, he has hundreds of titles in his catalog from six decades of songwriting (Beatles, Wings, solo) that he can choose...
Respect For Aretha
Aretha Franklin was once named the greatest singer ever by Rolling Stone magazine. Why then, at her funeral on Friday and the tribute concert in Detroit the night before, were other people singing songs she made famous? With the exception of "Think" (which she...
