Rocker Pete Townshend claims The Who invented stadium rock but “gave it away” to Queen
The Who’s Pete Townshend opens up about the band’s role in creating stadium rock and the unexpected legacy they left for Queen, U2, and Bruce Springsteen. Daily Express :: Music Feed
Brian May ‘can’t imagine rock guitar’ without music legend: ‘He basically invented it!’
Sir Brian May confesses he “can’t imagine rock guitar” without the influence of one particular music legend who is still alive. Daily Express :: Music Feed
Patrick Hamilton – the forgotten English writer who invented ‘gaslighting’
It’s one of those achingly modern phrases that now populate our collective vocabularies. In fact the term, denoting a twisted psychological relationship, comes from a play first performed 85 years ago this month Daily Express :: Books Feed
How crime writer Scott Turow invented the modern courtroom thriller
BEFORE John Grisham, before TV’s Law And Order, Kavanagh QC and Judge John Deed, there was Scott Turow. The bestselling American author almost single-handedly created the modern legal thriller with his 1987 blockbuster Presumed Innocent, which spawned the hit movie starring Harrison Ford as a lawyer accused of murder. Daily Express :: Books Feed
JK Rowling invented Quidditch to ‘INFURIATE men’ and you won’t believe why
JK ROWLING has revealed she invented the Harry Potter sport Quidditch to ‘infuriate men’ after a row with an old boyfriend. Daily Express :: Books Feed
Book review: Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll by Peter Guralnick
THE Mississippi River, sweltering cotton fields, segregation and the blues all evoke 1950s Deep South America, an era brought to vivid life in this brilliant and absorbing biography about legendary record producer Sam Phillips. Daily Express :: Books Feed