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Remembering when Paul McCartney visited Brian Wilson and played him a new Beatles song.

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Brian Wilson was profoundly moved when Paul McCartney visited him and played a new Beatles song

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Inspired by Queen's Brian May as a kid, Thom Yorke tried to build his own guitar.

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Radiohead's Thom Yorke was so inspired by Queen as a kid, he tried to build his own guitar

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The Bee Gees honored The Beatles with stunning covers medley in 1973

The Gibb brothers were highly influenced by the Fab Four.

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When 'The Jeffersons' star Sherman Hemsley danced to obscure prog-rock on his hit sitcom

He was an enormous prog fan.

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John Lennon had a UFO sighting so vivid, he referenced the phenomenon in a song

"It wasn’t a helicopter, and it wasn’t a balloon, and it was so near."

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Nirvana's subversive performance on a teen pop show is one of the funniest TV-music moments ever

Obvious miming and deep-voiced weirdness.

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How Heart transformed a man's sexist backstage comment into one of rock's enduring anthems

"It was a flash of anger, a realization of what we had gotten ourselves into."

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40 years ago Bono's Live Aid stage antics ended up saving a female fan from being crushed

It's a little-known Bono moment but it just be his very best.

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Lift Every Voice and Sing … Against Acoustic Torture

Music has been used to debilitate political foes for ages. Now academics and musicians want to reclaim the art for peace.

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A World Without Alan Lomax

The great American field collector of folk music inspired many of the world’s most famous songs.

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