Having hung out together before he embraced glam, shock rocker Alice Cooper selected one album from west coast psych-rockers The Doors as a firm favourite.
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The album’s cover art is a Warhol painting ... “I admire Andy Warhol’s work, I admire [Frank] Zappa a bit, but he’s a f*****’ intellectual — I can’t think of anybody else, ...
While the reverse of the album contains a lot to consider, the front cover is much simpler: Frank Zappa as RanXerox, wielding a broken guitar in one hand and a mosquito-swatter in the other, in ...
Seven years on from Mark E. Smith’s death, MOJO revisits one of our last encounters with The Fall’s autocratic genius.
John Lennon’s songwriting catalog with the Beatles was robust. His songs were characterized by off-kilter, heady lyrics (sometimes even nonsensical) that somehow spoke to audiences on a real level.