“Entwistle’s contemporary and fellow bassist, the former Rolling Stone, Bill Wyman, once dubbed him ‘the Jimi Hendrix of the bass guitar’. This was meant as the highest compliment but, with it, Wyman also inadvertently conjured the very demon that would haunt Entwistle throughout his professional life. Indisputably, he was a virtuoso musician, easily the most […]
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Robert Plant: A Life by Paul Rees (HarperCollins, $39.99)
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up “You very, very rarely meet someone like Plant, who is still fanatical about music after forty years at the top. That’s almost unprecedented.” -Bill Flanagan Many years ago I was having a coffee with a friend of mine at a small café on Monkland Avenue in N.D.G. The waitress […]
