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Fantasy (1967) LP all charted in Britain, tensions between Winwood and Mason caused the latter’s brief exit early in 1968 and a permanent one after a second album, Traffic (1968). Capaldi and Wood’s help during subsequent sessions for a proposed solo offering by Winwood came to be issued in 1970 as a Traffic album, John Barleycorn Must Die. ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

To Western ears the sitar became the quintessential sound of Indian music following its somewhat faddish promotion by The Beatles (through their collaboration with Ravi Shankar), The Rolling Stones and Traffic in the late 1960s – though its haunting sound has been a central part of Indian classical music for centuries. Developed in the thirteenth century, the bulb-like body of ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

difference is that instead of the crooks having to be slotted in or whipped out mid-performance, they are all permanently built into the instrument. The valve acts like a traffic policeman with a set of cones. When the valves are untouched, the player’s breath passes straight down the ‘high street’ of the instrument. Each time a valve comes into ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Billed as ‘the supergroup of all times’, Steve Winwood (keyboards, vocals), Eric Clapton (guitar), Rick Grech (bass) and Ginger Baker (drums) were an amalgam of ex-members of Cream, Traffic and Family. Launched with a free concert in London’s Hyde Park, they broke up after a troubled US tour. Winwood then reformed a Traffic that was to recruit Grech ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

– and a series of American tours. But within two years, the band was worn out and Clapton subsequently hooked up with another virtuoso, ex-Spencer Davis Group and Traffic keyboard player and singer Steve Winwood, to form Blind Faith, which also included Baker. Unfortunately, Blind Faith (1969) could not live up to the hype surrounding the ...

Source: Rock Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin

With his pioneering use of fuzz, feedback and distortion in tandem with a God-given talent, Jimi Hendrix expanded and redefined the range of the electric guitar, and in so doing he became one of rock’s greatest superstars, all within the space of just four years. Changing Names Born in Seattle, Washington, on 27 November 1942 ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

Jimi Hendrix remains the most innovative and influential rock guitarist in the world. He changed the way the guitar was played, transforming its possibilities and its image. Other guitarists had toyed with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned these and other effects into a controlled, personalized sound that generations of guitarists since have emulated and embellished. He was ...

Source: Rock Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin

adding Latin and jazz to his repertoire. The Style Council folded in 1989, leaving Weller out of favour and without a recording contract. Influenced by the classic rock of Traffic, Free and Neil Young, Weller returned to basics by playing live and mounted an impressive comeback, beginning with his self-titled solo debut in 1992 and culminating in ...

Source: Rock Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin

Ira completed a solo album, The Unforgettable Ira Louvin, in 1964. The following year he was killed – along with his wife and two associates – in a traffic accident in Missouri. Charlie has continued to record (for Capitol, United Artists, Little Darlin’ and other labels) and to perform in the decades since his brother’s death, ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music, consultant editor Bob Allen

of Merseybeat. Sales dwindled, too, through releases that either repeated old ideas or made token concessions to current trends. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | Traffic | Sixties | Rock ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

a new generation familiar with the music. The long-term result is that its influence has spread far and wide, and continues to do so. In 1970, rock band Traffic played an elaborate arrangement of the trad song ‘John Barleycorn’, while other iconic artists – such as Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Mike Oldfield and Jethro ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

Hank Williams and George Jones would have found the whole notion of alt-country unfathomable. Why would anyone seek an alternative to bestselling country records ? For these sons of dire southern poverty, the whole point of making country records was to sell as many as possible and maybe catch hold of the dignity and comfort that a middle-class life might ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music, consultant editor Bob Allen

December Battersea Photoshoot Roger Waters’ idea for the cover of the new Pink Floyd album was of a pig hovering over the four chimneys of the Battersea Power station. He tasked Hipgnosis to photograph this concept. A 12-m (40-ft) inflatable pig was duly made and inflated, and three days were set aside in December – even with the album scheduled ...

Source: Pink Floyd Revealed, by Ian Shirley

August The Abbey Road Cover The photograph that would adorn the cover of Abbey Road was shot on the hot sunny morning of 8 August. A policeman temporarily held up traffic while photographer Ian Macmillan climbed up a step ladder in the middle of the road and took the now-iconic shot of The Beatles walking across the pedestrian crossing. The idea ...

Source: The Beatles Revealed, by Hugh Fielder

The 1920s was, without doubt, the Jazz Age. Workers and the newly burgeoning middle class turned into consumers due to relatively higher wages. The international political advantages that came from having just won a major war buttressed a ‘lost generation’ of artistic types, who took up residence in Europe. New moral codes, sophistication and cynicism abounded. Some ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel
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