The following is an excerpt from the book Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in Fifteen Drummers, released on November 11th. The 41st Grammy Awards were held on February 24, 1999, and the event was ...

One theme of the book is that its drummers’ work lives on not just because of the songs they played but because, in the sampling era, many of their sounds have been used and reused, not always with ...

If you’re a music fan who hasn’t thought much about drumming (I’m guilty on both counts), “Backbeats” will be a revelation. Amateur drummer John Lingan divides his book into 15 chapters about 15 ...

My book Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in 15 Drummers tells a familiar story from an unfamiliar vantage. Moving from Chicago blues to Phil Spector’s early-1960s confections to the British ...

Music writer Lingan (Homeplace) celebrates the unsung musicians “who often go uncredited, who sit all night between the amps,” with this animated tribute to 15 of rock’s most influential drummers.

In September 1962, The Beatles recorded “Love Me Do”, with “P.S. I Love You” on the flip side, alongside the producer, George Martin, at the Abbey Road Studios. When the songs were released a few ...