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Axl Rose wearing his skeleton jacket before a concert (1989)

43-year-old Chuck Berry and 26-year-old Mick Jagger talking backstage in New York City in late November 1969. Berry was a major influence on the early Rolling Stones.

In a famous 1983 interview with Jas Obrecht, Angus Young reflected with utter humility on the true driving force behind AC/DC. Despite being the public face of the band, the lead guitarist stated that he was merely “a shade above,” acknowledging his older brother, Malcolm Young, as the true pillar and foundation that propelled every song. Angus highlighted Malcolm’s unique style, characterized by a hard, clean attack and unmatched rhythmic precision. He explained that getting musicians to hit the same note at the exact same millisecond is one of music’s most complex challenges, and that it was precisely Malcolm’s solidity that allowed the band to sound like a single, compact unit. Without that relentless rhythmic foundation, Angus asserted that his own guitar embellishments and solos would be completely devoid of emotional weight and harmonic context.

In the early 1970s, before Blondie’s massive success, Debbie Harry endured a period of constant harassment by an ex-partner in New Jersey. The man would watch her house around the clock and call her incessantly, which ultimately forced the singer to move to New York to get away from him. Years later, when bassist Nigel Harrison presented the instrumental track for the album "Parallel Lines" (1978), Harry decided to channel that disturbing experience into the lyrics. To avoid approaching the trauma from the perspective of a victim, the vocalist used dark humor and a provocative attitude as a defense mechanism, transforming the threat into an energetic power rhythm. “One Way or Another” became an instant classic and one of the band’s biggest commercial hits. The song demonstrated Debbie Harry’s ability to subvert a situation of vulnerability into an anthem of empowerment and control on stage.