Studying the place well-known artists sleep and what they eat is like lastly glimpsing the unknowable.
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The lives of well-known musicians have at all times impressed intense curiosity from followers and the press alike, typically to an unhealthy diploma. A peek inside—studying the place these artists sleep and what they eat, what music carries them via lengthy nights, what their largest fears are—can really feel like lastly glimpsing the unknowable. It makes them, and their artwork, really feel just a bit extra human. As we speak’s publication explores the interior lives of well-known artists.
On Musicians’ Lives
What the Band Eats
By Reya Hart
Reminiscences of the meals I ate rising up with the Grateful Lifeless
How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day within the Life’
By Nicholas Dawidoff
Fifty years after its launch, the sprawling closing monitor on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band stays a testomony to the group’s bold songwriting.
The Inconceivable, Unstoppable Rise of Goose
By Charlie Warzel
Meet the jam band that simply would possibly persuade you to like a jam band.
Nonetheless Curious?
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P.S.
I just lately requested readers to share a photograph of one thing that sparks their sense of awe on the earth. Phil Kunkel, 72, from St. Cloud, Minnesota, writes, “I appeared out of our resort room window” In Arizona’s Monument Valley “simply in time to catch the early morning magic of daylight starting to look behind the superb rock formations for which the Valley is understood.”
I’ll proceed to function your responses within the coming weeks.
— Isabel