NPR Music's Turning the Tables is a project envisioned to challenge sexist and exclusionary conversations about musical greatness. Up until now we
Johnny Rotten sniffed with typical contrarianism on July 16, 1977, as he guest DJed on Capital Radio’s Tommy Vance show. Of course, he said this over the opening chords of “Rebel Rebel.” But didn’t those vomit-orange spikes suspiciously resemble Ziggy Stardust’s earlier thatched mullet? Didn’t he sing into a mic Steve Jones stole from the Ziggy farewell gig? And Jonesy clearly owed
Johnny Thunders guitar-wise, but those roaring power chords were stamped with a classic Bowie guitarist’s tone. “If I’ve got any ‘heroes,’” he told Alternative Press in 1989, “it’s Mick Ronson…”
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Many early L.A. punk rockers received their musical education at the English Disco, scenemaker/DJ
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, we revisit some of our favorite music movies from artist docs and concert films to biopics and fictional music flicks that are available to stream or rent. Our selections this month focus on musician-actors finding their perfect roles. Stream The Man Who Fell to Earth
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Out of all the dozens of nonfiction films made about David Bowie, none is as notorious as
Cracked Actor. The short, dense BBC documentary dispatched director Alan Yentob to the U.S. in late 1974 to chat with the 27-year-old artist in the rare moments when he wasn’t touring
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