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Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, April 2013
Two nights. Nine-and-a-half hours. Thirty-three guitar players (more or less). Ninety-one songs. ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, January 2007
"AT THE END of the day," says Tori Amos, "if I'm not inflammatory, I wouldn't be Tori." ...
The Band, Levon Helm: Love for Levon: Izod Center, New Jersey
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, October 2012
LEVON HELM wasn't exactly a household name. But when the former drummer and vocalist for The Band died in April after a long battle with ...
The Band, Robbie Robertson: Robbie Robertson
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, September 2013
ROBBIE ROBERTSON isn't exactly known for being prolific. In the almost 37 years since The Last Waltz marked his final show with The Band, he ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, June 2007
There were many who vied for the title, but in the recording studio, there was really only one Fifth Beatle. ...
Jeff Beck, Stevie Wonder: Jeff Beck
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, April 2010
"EVERY TIME I hear a really attractive chord sequence, I'm on my way again," says Jeff Beck. "I think, what can I do with this?" ...
The Bee Gees, Robin Gibb: Robin Gibb remembers Saturday Night Fever
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, September 2007
FOR BABY BOOMERS, this year marked the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love. For hipsters worldwide, 2007 means that it's been three decades since ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, October 2011
"NOBODY'S EVER known what to call me," says Harry Belafonte. "Was I a folk singer, jazz, pop? Or was I even a singer at all? ...
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, December 2012
IT MIGHT HAVE been the single greatest gathering of talent for a rock show – or it might just have been, as Mick Jagger put ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, August 2008
IN NEW YORK CITY this summer, David Byrne is everywhere. His installation titled Playing the Building transformed the Battery Maritime Building into a giant musical ...
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, February 2014
"THAT ROCK fantasy camp shit?," screamed a shirtless Taylor Hawkins. "This is it right here!" The Foo Fighters drummer – taking a rare turn standing ...
Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, September 2008
"THIS IS OUR twenty-third Farm Aid," said John Mellencamp, "and when we started this thing, we were naïve enough that we thought we'd have this ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, July 2012
THERE IS exactly one reggae singer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame whose name is not Bob Marley. The truth, though, is that ...
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, March 2013
PRINCE HAS long been considered a gold standard as a singer, guitarist, stage performer, and producer. He's such a singular force, though, that he hasn't ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Richie Havens, Santana: Woodstock's 40th anniversary
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, August 2009
Woodstock was a beginning, and it was an end. ...
Fleetwood Mac Unleashed: Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham speak
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, February 2009
A FEW WEEKS ago in Los Angeles, the members of Fleetwood Mac – Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Stevie Nicks – gathered together ...
The Four Tops, The Supremes, The Temptations: Motown at 50
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, January 2009
FIFTY YEARS AGO this month in Detroit, a 29-year-old African-American songwriter named Berry Gordy, Jr – a former boxer, autoworker, and Army veteran – borrowed ...
Buddy Guy on his autobiography
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, June 2012
"A LOT OF people have the blues and don't even know they got it," says Buddy Guy. "But just keep living and you'll figure out ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, August 2007
"FOR ME," says Emmylou Harris, "it's always about finding a song, one at a time, that I love and that I can make my own." ...
Profile and Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, May 2011
LEVON HELM is standing in his kitchen, grinning. At the head of the table, singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys is showing guitarist Larry Campbell, best known for ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, September 2007
"I THINK YOU just learn as you go along," says Mick Jagger, "whether you're playing with the Rolling Stones or playing with other musicians." If ...
Jay-Z: Carnegie Hall, New York City
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, July 2012
LIKE ANY REAL MC, Jay-Z loves a challenge. He just takes things to a higher level than, well, anyone. So it wasn't enough that on ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, July 2008
IN 1977, BILLY Joel was struggling to catch a break. The Long Island native was approaching 30, and had released four albums to no great ...
Led Zeppelin: Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, October 2007
IT IS A ROCK and roll fantasy that most people had abandoned. On November 26 at London's O2 Arena, the three surviving members of Led ...
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, May 2009
IN THE NEW biography The Protest Singer, folk music paragon Pete Seeger tells writer Alec Wilkinson that the single word he believes in above all ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, May 2012
LISA MARIE Presley had to go to England to come home. The only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, she had released two albums – ...
The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on Some Girls
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, November 2011
"THE IDEA WAS ten songs, very direct, not a lot of backing vocals or horns, no duets or guests, very straightforward," says Mick Jagger. "We ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, October 2011
"CAN YOU IMAGINE us years from today?" wrote Paul Simon in 'Old Friends', from Simon and Garfunkel's 1968 album Bookends. "Sharing a park bench quietly/How ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, May 2008
THE WORSE THINGS get, the better Steely Dan sounds. The songs of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen stand as the definitive account of urban decadence ...
Carrie Underwood: An Interview
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, July 2006
"AT FIRST I felt like maybe I cheated a bit, getting in the way I did," said Carrie Underwood. "But I paid my dues my ...
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, January 2012
"WELCOME TO Occupy Van Halen!," said a grinning David Lee Roth, as the band took to the stage of New York's tiny basement club Café ...
Steve Winwood: The Lives of Steve Winwood
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, March 2008
THE TITLE OF Steve Winwood's new album is Nine Lives – which refers to the number of songs the disc contains, but could just as ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, December 2012
"THERE'S A day of reckoning coming," says Neil Young. "These superstorms and disasters — they're not a surprise, they were predicted, and they're only going ...
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, June 2012
"I JUST DIDN'T want any new songs," says Neil Young. "I was not anxious to go down that road – to have people analyzing them ...
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