Music | #封面人物 RS CoverBy Ziqiu
As outsiders say, no other media outlet has documented pop culture over the past 54 years in as much detail as Rolling Stone.
Appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone means reaching the pinnacle of pop culture – its image represents "most current", "most popular" and "most undeniably". Since 1967, when Rolling Stone chose John Lennon's promotional stills from Richard Leicester's film How I Won the War as the cover, it has doomed the uniqueness of this legendary medium – this cover covering music, culture, and mass entertainment has been decisive to the Rolling Stone brand from day one, indicating that a new generation with independent ideas has come to the forefront of the times.
Rolling Stone was launched in November 1967 under the inaugural issue ©Rolling Stone
Since its inception, almost every major musician, artist, film and television star and cultural celebrity has appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone. As the founder of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner's vision is to introduce the world to the best people who have played an important role in the cultural process through the cover, through the cover to record the epitome of the culture of the times in detail; but also to prove the fact that what matters is not who you introduce in the magazine, but how you use him to record the style of the times, and how you can make future generations remember them.
Although Rolling Stone's later influence spread from music to film and television, entertainment, sports, politics and other fields, music is still the core that brings everyone together. Let's take the cover of Rolling Stone as a clue to tell you the stories of several legendary musicians.
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RS #1155, April 26, 2012| Oliver Woods
Radiohead is an alternative rock band from Oxfordshire, England, known as the greatest British band since the Beatles. When the album Kid A was released in 2000, it topped the Billboard album chart in the United States just one week.
Radiohead's music has a complex arrangement and a varied soundtrack, and they are adept at creating layers of intertwined atmospheres with rich details. In its early works, Radiohead had very distinct political and social demands. In the later period, their music showed more of the pursuit of aesthetics itself. Released in 1992, Creep is one of their best-known works, and over the next 20 years, it has been covered by many well-known singers and bands such as Shiina Lin, Jeff Buckley, U2, Brilliance Chenyu, Soda Green and many others.
Lead singer Thom Yorke was ranked 66th in Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time." His emotional dummy singing style influenced Coldplay, Travis, Muse, Elbow and others, making him one of the most influential singers of his time.
At Abingdon Boys' School in Oxfordshire, Thom met four of his future teammates: guitarist Jonny Greenwood, guitarist Ed O'Brien, bassist Colin Greenwood and drummer Phil Selway.
Their band was originally called "Friday" because the band only had time to practice on Fridays. No one expected that one of the greatest bands of all time would be born. Rarely, radiohead's members maintained a close relationship despite their great success, each with their own characteristics but mutual achievements, and their friendship lasted for nearly a third of a century.
In 2019, Radiohead was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Talking Heads band member David Byrne, who commented: "Their music has revolutionized the music industry with consistently high quality and constant innovation. ”
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《OK COMPUTER》
Radiohead's third album, OK Computer, released in 1997, was probably one of the best albums in the UK to date, earning them a wide international reputation and being praised as a landmark record of the 1990s. The disc's complex arrangements create a surreal, cinematic character. The album's debut single, Paranoid Android, reached number three on the UK charts as soon as it was released.
This album full of sci-fi sound effects seems to depict a slightly cold technological future, leading us through a world of constantly calculated "0s" and "1s". However, during the recording of the album, Thom abandoned the pursuit of advanced video technology in pursuit of perfection, and instead pursued the original and realistic sound effects. Radiohead recorded OK Computer in an old 14th-century manor house, which spread to every corner of the villa, from the large empty ballroom to the shadowy aisles. Thom's long voice blends and intertwines with ancient architectural spaces, with intricate orchestrations bouncing back and forth between planks or stones, weaving layers of old, disorienting music.
In 2019, the 18-hour demo file for the album was stolen by hackers and required to pay a ransom of $150,000. Radiohead, however, unexpectedly made the demo public, sold it online for £18 for 18 days, and donated the proceeds to environmental charity.
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