Memoir in a Melody: Edie Sedgwick’s Shadow in ‘Like a Rolling Stone’
Falling out of Warhol's inner circle, Sedgwick became close with Bob Dylan. For Andy, Edie was a vessel, but for Dylan, she was perhaps something else entirely. (READ MORE)
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Memoir in a Melody: Jayne Mansfield’s Demise in Siouxsie Sioux’s ‘Kiss Them For Me’
Behind the sweet, saccharine vocals and atmospheric music of Siouxsie and The Banshees' 'Kiss Them For Me' is actually the story of a horrific accident. The song tells the story of the tragic car accident that cut short the life of actress and sex icon Jayne Mansfield.(READ MORE)
The Needle and the Damage Undone: Reflections on the Record that Changed My Life
Have you ever been so moved by an album, it now defines a whole period of your life? Sean Hoen has, and he joins Biographile to discuss the first ineffable tunes of that record, as if 'touched by a nearly religious, sadly-sweet feeling I’m not sure I've ever again felt with such force.'(READ MORE)
Memoir in a Melody: The Tragic Disappearance Behind Fastball’s ‘The Way’
Tony Scalzo wrote "The Way" in 1997, after reading an article about an elderly couple who vanished on a Texas road. This is their story. (READ MORE)
Memoir in a Melody: Johnny Cash Announces ‘I Walk the Line’
The song’s lyrics, though simple on the surface, reveal a great deal about Cash’s musical influences as well as his domestic life.(READ MORE)
Memoir in a Melody: David Bowie, Zowie Bowie, and a Family of ‘Kooks’
In David Bowie's song Kooks, he embellishes on his happy family life with the introduction of his newborn son, named Zowie Bowie. (READ MORE)
A Dueling Banjos Bio: Woody Guthrie and Irving Berlin in ‘This Land That I Love’
"God Bless America" is rah-rah American exceptionalism. "This Land is Your Land" is sensitive American progressivism. And with John Shaw's biography This Land is Your Land, you'll soon learn the truth of the matter is, as usual, much deeper.(READ MORE)
Rewinding The Beatles: From ‘Dear Prudence’ Back to Their Boyhood in Liverpool
Ten years before Dear Prudence, the Beatles met as teenagers at a church in Liverpool. Mark Lewisohn’s new opus, Tune In: The Beatles, All These Years, Volume 1, charts their rise to fame, and has two more volumes in store for the Beatle-maniac in all of us.(READ MORE)
Memoir in a Melody: The Outrage in Nina Simone’s ‘Mississippi Goddam’
In our Memoir in a Melody series, we examine the song "Mississippi Goddam," by Nina Simone, a pivotal song in Simone's career that captured a turning point in the American civil rights movement. The song complicated her relationship with the white establishment while cemented her allegiance with the civil...(READ MORE)
Memoir in a Melody: Baby Blue and Badfinger’s Tragic Demise
Badfinger had it good, and then they had it bad. Here's the story of the promising rise of a Beatle's breakout band, the story behind their hit song Baby Blue, and their fall from the musical towers after a business deal saw them squeezed and exploited. (READ MORE)
