Miscellaneous

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The Crazy Idea - When the Doors thought about replacing Jim Morrison with Paul McCartney

The crazy idea that could have led to a second life for the Californian band and the ex-Beatle

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The Reunion - Pink Floyd: how Waters and Gilmour were talked into getting back together

The story of an impossible reunion, which materialised out of the blue and remained the band's last performance together as a full lineup

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The Police paradox - The song Sting hated so much he buried the tape

It even won a Grammy, but the English band's frontman did everything he could to keep it from coming out: the story of Summers' "cursed song"

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The last concert - When Fabrizio De André attacked the mafias in Calabria and was misunderstood

The controversial episode that took place during what would remain the Genoese singer-songwriter's final concert

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The crazy idea

When the Doors thought about replacing Jim Morrison with Paul McCartney

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The Fluke - When Pink Floyd overcame their aversion to singles and topped the charts

The disorienting effect of 1980: a band that had built its reputation on the album format found itself at the top of the singles charts

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"Into The Groovey" - When Sonic Youth paid tribute to Madonna and her punk beginnings

The unlikely connection between the standard-bearers of alt-rock's "Daydream Nation" and the Material Girl in the shadow of the Big Apple

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The Odd Couple - When Battiato teamed up with De Gregori on his most controversial song

In 2001, the Prince touched one of the rawest nerves in Italian history, enlisting for the occasion the author of "Lettera al governatore della Libia"

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The 1983 meeting - When Vasco Rossi joined forces with his mentor Jannacci for a memorable duet

The songwriter from Zocca found himself side by side with his Milanese mentor for a special TV duet

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In 1976 London - When the Sex Pistols hated Pink Floyd: legend or reality?

The story of an alleged grudge inspired by a famous t-shirt, in the punk London of the late Seventies

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The Collaboration That Never Was - When David Bowie Said No to Coldplay

Here's what the Thin White Duke told Chris Martin when he asked him to take part in a collaboration with his band

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The self-portrait - When Vasco Rossi recounted his “19th nervous breakdown”

One of the earliest and most genuine confessions from the singer-songwriter from Zocca, hidden behind a famous alter ego

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The miracle of 1997 - When CSI topped the charts, beating out Oasis

The story of the miraculous achievement by Ferretti and his bandmates at the height of the golden age of alternative rock in Italy

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Special Alchemy - When The Cure Wrote the Perfect Pop Song, According to Robert Smith

The story of the track that, according to the English band's frontman, embodied his pop peak

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The Fab Four Feud - When the Beatles thought about firing George Harrison and replacing him with Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton in George Harrison's place: the blasphemous idea floated at Apple's studios after a legendary row

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The Crazy Diamond's Byline - When Syd Barrett reviewed a David Bowie track for Melody Maker

At the height of his rise with Pink Floyd, the Crazy Diamond was also, for a while, a byline at the British magazine. And he reviewed the future Thin White Duke...

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The Frontman's Favourite - The Album That, for Robert Smith, Captures The Cure at Their Best

If "Pornography" and "Disintegration" are considered by fans to be the English band's high points, for the frontman there's another album that tops them

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Genii a confronto - When Frank Zappa paid tribute to Franco Battiato with a bizarre gift

It wasn't just their shared Sicilian roots that connected the two composers, as this curious anecdote from the Seventies reveals

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The verse under fire - When Fabrizio De André was censored in one of his classics – Comparing the two versions

Censorship spared not even one of the most refined pens in Italian song, forcing him to alter one of his classics, inspired by Saba

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A troubled relationship - The Genesis album Phil Collins doesn't like

On several occasions, the drummer and frontman has admitted his difficulties with a record that marked a turning point in the band's history

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The song of discord - The Neil Young track Bob Dylan couldn't stand: “I hated hearing it on the radio”

Between the two folk-rock masters there has always been mutual respect, but one song nearly cracked the relationship...

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The Missed Crossing - When Pink Floyd said no to Stanley Kubrick

The story of one of the most sensational missed encounters between rock music and cinema, at the dawn of the Seventies

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Close encounters - When Sonic Youth and Nirvana played together for the first time

"Impossible to beat." That's what Thurston Moore exclaimed when he had his first live experience with Nirvana

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The ex-Beatle's toughest phase - When Paul McCartney nearly quit music

In the documentary "Man On The Run" he reveals the story of the toughest phase of his career, when he considered giving up songwriting