Eduardo Rivadavia (aka Ed Rivadavia) was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and by his late teens had already toured the world (and elsewhere), learning four languages on three continents. Having also accepted the holy gospel of rock & roll as his lord and savior, Eduardo became infatuated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and all things heavy, crude, and obnoxious while living in Milan, Italy, during the mid-1980s. At this time, he also made his journalistic debut as sole writer, editor, publisher, and, some would claim, reader of his high school's heavy metal fanzine, earning the scorn of jocks and nerds alike, but uniting the small hardcore music-loving contingent into a frenzied mob that spent countless hours exchanging tapes, talking shop, and getting beat up at concerts. Upon returning home to Brazil, Eduardo resumed a semi-normal existence, sporadically contributing music articles to local papers and magazines while earning his business degree. Finally, after years of obsessive musical fandom and at peace with his distinct lack of musical talent, Eduardo decided the time had come to infiltrate the music industry by the fire escape. He quit his boring corporate job, relocated to America, earned his master's degree while suffering the iniquities of interning for free (anything for rock & roll!), and eventually began working for various record labels, accumulating mountains of records and (seemingly) useless rock trivia in the process. This eventually led him back to writing, and he has regularly contributed articles to multiple websites since 1999, working with many different rock genres but specializing, as always, in his personal hobby: hard rock and heavy metal. To quote from the insightful 'This Is Spinal Tap': "People should be jealous of me...I'm jealous of me...." Eduardo currently resides in Austin, TX, with his wife, two daughters, and far more records, CDs and MP3s than he'll ever have time to listen to.
Eduardo Rivadavia
36 Years Ago: AC/DC Break Through With ‘Highway to Hell’
Despite its rather ominous name, Highway to Hell was the album that set AC/DC's career on a fast track to hard rock heaven when it was released on Aug. 3, 1979.
42 Years Ago: Led Zeppelin Robbed of $200,000
A large sum of money belonging to Led Zeppelin was taken from their New York hotel on July 29, 1973.
The Story of David Bowie’s Complex Post-Ziggy Album, ‘Diamond Dogs’
David Bowie released 'Diamond Dogs' on April 24, 1974.
46 Years Ago: Joe Cocker Releases His Debut Album With a Little Help From His Friends
In April 1969, Joe Cocker laid the groundwork for his '70s stardom when he unveiled his debut album, With a Little Help From My Friends.
31 Years Ago: ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ Released
March 2, 1984, marks the release of one of history’s most acclaimed documentaries … nay, “rockumentaries,” This Is Spinal Tap,.
46 Years Ago: Led Zeppelin’s First Album Sets the Hard Rock Paradigm
This may seem obvious, but Led Zeppelin’s eponymous debut is an album full of firsts, beyond the ‘I’ frequently tacked onto its title nowadays.
40 Years Ago: Eric Clapton Releases ‘461 Ocean Boulevard’
Eric Clapton emerged from his heroin-induced hibernation with '461 Ocean Boulevard' in July 1974.
45 Years Ago: Cream Release ‘Goodbye’
On Feb. 15, 1969, Cream -- the group comprised of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker -- bid the world ‘Goodbye’ with the album by that same title; thus neatly closing the book on the altogether brief but consistently headline-hogging career of rock's very first supergroup.
35 Years Ago: Peter Frampton Almost Killed in Car Wreck
You know that old adage about bad things always happen in threes? Well you could say it victimized rocker Peter Frampton 35 years ago today, when the platinum-selling '70s superstar was nearly killed in a car crash while in the Bahamas.
Top 10 ‘70s Glam Rock Songs
In many ways, the glam rock explosion of the early '70s was a “rage against the fading of the light.” By that we’re referencing the “fading” of the ‘60s’ cultural Technicolor dream: the Beatles’ break-up, the Stones’ Altamont debacle, the Manson killings, the deaths of Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison, and the general abandonment of the Age of Aquarius’ peacefully revolutionary spirit in exchange for