But indeed there are many classic rock songs that wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for classically trained artists. When the band’s piano-playing roadie Billy Powell made himself known by ...
“I used to play on a lot of gospel sessions,” Wonder would later say of those days — just one of the many kinds of music in whose styles he would later write classic songs, many of them on ...
At the end of 1964, 21-year-old Paul McCartney was staying ... ‘If you play that bloody song any longer I’ll have the piano taken off stage. Either finish it or give it up,’” recalled ...
If anyone can pull off a classical-crossover album, it’s Tori Amos. ‘Night Of Hunters’ is a 21st-century song cycle that draws ... with her Bösendorfer piano and crystalline voice remaining ...