Lucy Harbron

London

Staff Writer at Far Out Magazine

writer ✿ staff @faroutmag / ex-@Gigwise editor ✿ she/her ✿ https://t.co/1dG9zGSpGB

Articles

Why didn't The Beatles play Woodstock?

4 days ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Harbron

Mon 23 June 2025 20:15, UK Let’s imagine it together: The Beatles did their rooftop concert. The challenging Get Back sessions ended with that iconic moment, marking a strange point where the band simultaneously knew they were breaking up but also seemed somehow reinvigorated by the process. Now imagine a world where they had another booking to be working towards, another show to prepare for: Woodstock.
Paul McCartney's best guitar solo for The Beatles

4 days ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Harbron

Mon 23 June 2025 15:30, UK One of the things that made The Beatles so powerful was the multi-talented nature of the group. It wasn’t just that all four could sing, taking it in turns to jump on the mic and take on the frontman role for a song, but they could all write and everyone, barring Ringo, could play several instruments. Paul McCartney, especially, was a veritable one-man band. When he first auditioned for the group, it was on guitar where he took up his initial post as the rhythm guitarist.
The Beatles guitar solo Paul McCartney called his best: “That’s pretty good”

4 days ago | flipboard.com | Lucy Harbron

Paul McCartney 'didn't like' one detail in Beatles film and let director knowSir Paul McCartney was reportedly annoyed by one detail in a Beatles film and let the director know - and he could be even more unhappy about the …
The song that “cursed” Billy Joel’s marriage

5 days ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Harbron

Mon 23 June 2025 14:00, UK There are plenty of things people get superstitious about: walking over cracks, three drains in a row, broken mirrors, and black cats. They rarely have a reason; instead, they’re just loose worries passed down from generation to generation. But for Billy Joel, after a sad pattern emerged, his own superstitions and fears felt like they were cutting his hand off. What is a piano man without a love song?
The five best non-music things to do at Glastonbury Festival

5 days ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Harbron

Mon 23 June 2025 13:00, UK You could go to Glastonbury Festival, not see a single band, and still have a great time. There’s no other festival in the world that can boast that. The rest might give you Mr Motivator doing a dance class on a Saturday morning, maybe some yoga on a Sunday and call it a day. But at Glasto, in those sprawling fields, there is always a new path to take to a whole new type of experience. In my experiences at the festival, two things stand out. One was a Thursday.
What is Pink Floyd's 'Comfortably Numb' about?

5 days ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Harbron

Mon 23 June 2025 11:54, UK The beauty of art is the way it changes from person to person. One painting never truly hits two onlookers the same. One film won’t move everyone equally. The words of a song will always translate slightly differently to each set of ears. In the case of Pink Floyd, ‘Comfortably Numb’ varies a lot, from context to context, but even bandmate to bandmate. When I listen to the track, it’s about sheer dissociation.
How Patti Smith's reworking of 'Hey Joe' tells two stories

5 days ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Harbron

Mon 23 June 2025 2:30, UK Everything in Patti Smith’s life led up to one moment. She’s heard formative early records. She’s run away to New York. She’d watched The Doors perform live, having that first inkling that maybe she could do that too or at least she’d like to try. She’s embedded herself in a social scene of rock stars and writers, starting her poetry night and thinking maybe that would be enough, but no. Everything in Patti Smith’s life led up to one moment: November 1974, her first single.
How did The Velvet Underground meet?

5 days ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Harbron

Sun 22 June 2025 21:45, UK Some moments change the world. Often, it’s the simplest ones. A person walks into a room, two people strike up a conversation, someone learns something new. At the time, it barely registers. Only later does its significance become clear. The moment that The Velvet Underground came together was exactly like that. So simple, it hardly feels like a story. In a perfect prediction of the legacy they would go on to create, the band didn’t form in any typical rock and roll fashion.
The Doors song that sounds best on LSD: “Jim was so messed up”

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Lucy Harbron

10 hours agoLegendary ‘60s Rock Band’s Surviving Members Make Bold Confession About Late FrontmanJim Morrison died in 1971 at just 27. John Densmore and Robby Krieger, the last two surviving members of the legendary '60s rock band The Doors, …2 days ago'I can't even fathom': College World Series fans react to closure of Rosenblatt Stadium in 2010OMAHA, Neb. — Jim Morrison once said, "This is the end." In 2010, the door was closing on a six-decade tradition at Rosenblatt Stadium. "It's kind of …
The best Doors song to listen to after taking LSD

5 days ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Harbron

Sun 22 June 2025 21:15, UK In the mid-1960s, a guy called Ken Kesey was doing experiments up and down the West Coast, mostly in the hippie epicentre of the San Francisco Bay Area. Advertised with psychedelic posters reading, “Can you pass the acid test?”, he claimed to be studying the effects of LSD, but really, the acid tests were a chance for a bunch of kids to get royally messed up and experience the world’s most intense trip with lights, music, videos, and all sorts.