Tom Taylor

2 weeks ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Sat 7 June 2025 22:00, UK As the sun perched its rays in a sequined sea of muddy puddles spotted around a field in Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix became the Jesus Christ of counterculture in front of 500,000—quite literally, in the eyes of one reveller. Stoned out of his mind on acid, one humble attendee genuinely thought that Hendrix had transubstantiated into Christ before his very eyes. This accountant had been an atheist prior to seeing Jesus shred ‘Foxy Lady’, now he wasn’t sure what to think.

2 weeks ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Sat 7 June 2025 19:00, UK Not so long ago, the phrase, ‘Is that the banjo player’s Ferrari outside?’ had never once been uttered in human history. Country music in its backwater glory days was as blue-collar and non-commercial as music in capitalist America could possibly get. Now, there are country stars, a misnomer akin to being a grade eight triangle player. Country music was always meant to be salt of the earth and ragtag, not polished and PR-trained.

2 weeks ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Sat 7 June 2025 18:00, UK Pop music is a ‘product’ in the public’s view. The craft behind songs is often forgotten along with the vital contributors as soon as a track hits the radio and transcends honed creativity, becoming something more tangible, with a solid and knowable surface. However, Neil Young has always been a star who likes to look beyond that, to dig beneath the surface and find out what’s really going on in the welter of a hit.

2 weeks ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Sat 7 June 2025 15:00, UK Afraid, alone and suffering from shivering substance withdrawals, Iggy Pop found himself holed up in a Californian mental health institution, desperately unsure what to do with himself. It’s hard to know whether his quaking delirium was intensified or abated when David Bowie and Dennis Hopper snuck into his hospital room, dressed as spacemen, with a special delivery of cocaine.

3 weeks ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Fri 6 June 2025 18:30, UK The counterculture revolution didn’t just arise out of nowhere. It wasn’t thrust into place by Elvis Presley’s hips, nor Chuck Berry’s duck walking, nor Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s searing guitar. Sure, rock ‘n’ roll might have been the chosen medium of the cultural frenzy, but it was newfangled technology that helped to propel it at an unprecedented pace.