The life of early composers is not much different from today’s wild rockers. Franz Schubert’s  lifestyle and sexual adventures resulted in syphilis […]

In the 1970s a friend of the band Throbbing Gristle described their sound as “Industrial Music for Industrial People” – the group […]

In 1975, at age 14, Larry Mullen Jr posted a notice at his school in Dublin, Ireland, which said that he wanted […]

Ludwig von Beethoven is known as the man who freed music and is the first composer who never had an official court […]

Dean Martin’s “Wham bam, thank you Ma’am” was banned in 1951. Bob Dylan’s 1976 album Hard Rain was banned in many countries […]

The band of the Titanic weren’t the only ones to die playing. Many guitarists have been electrocuted by faulty wires. In 1972, […]

Ransom Eli Olds built a three-wheeled carriage in 1887 and a petrol (gasoline) car in 1896. In 1899, he founded the Olds […]

In 1958, a group of record executives, alarmed by the explosive success of rock ‘n’ roll – and the threat rock posed […]

Long before Prince became the artist known by a symbol, English poets signed their work with a symbol. In fact, only two […]

The Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” does not stand for “LSD.” The title actually comes from John Lennon’s son […]