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âThereâs A Party Goinâ Onâ: How Wanda Jackson Stole The Rockabilly Crown
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âThereâs A Party Goinâ Onâ: How Wanda Jackson Stole The Rockabilly Crown
Wanda Jackson tore up the rulebook. She tried to sign to Capitol Records but they didnât want to know. Girls didnât sing rockabilly â and anyway, they told her, records made by ladies didnât sell. Why, she wasnât even a cowgirl. Even though Jackson was from Okie, she didnât sing...
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Session Musician Spotlight: Paulinho Da Costa
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Session Musician Spotlight: Paulinho Da Costa
What do Donny Osmond, Dizzy Gillespie, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Kenny Rogers, and Tori Amos all have in common? Paulinho Da Costa.
This Rio de Janeiro-born percussionist joined his first band at the age of five. After joining SĂ©rgio Mendesâ group, Brasil â77 at the age of 25,...
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âGood Girl Gone Badâ: Charting Rihannaâs Daring Transformation
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âGood Girl Gone Badâ: Charting Rihannaâs Daring Transformation
Good Girl Gone Bad opens with Jay Z introducing Rihanna as a âgood girl gone bad,â but at this stage in her career, the rising pop star no longer needed a co-sign. With two albums under her belt, sheâd already proven her potential, but on Good Girl Gone Bad the Bajan songstress...
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Sheets Of Sound: John Coltrane, Prestige And The Path To Immortality
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Sheets Of Sound: John Coltrane, Prestige And The Path To Immortality
Itâs 1958 and John Coltrane is looking to rebuild his career. The reputation of the Philadelphia-raised musician, then 32, had seemed in serious jeopardy a year earlier, after his heroin addiction got him fired from Miles Davisâ group. As a rising star of the tenor saxophone â t...
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Space Whisperer: In Memory Of Gong Co-Founder Gilli Smyth
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Space Whisperer: In Memory Of Gong Co-Founder Gilli Smyth
Gilli Smyth was not only co-founder of progressive rock pacesetters Gong with her partner Daevid Allen. Smyth also worked on their satellite projects Mother Gong and Planet Gong, and made several albums of her own as well as performance poetry, including under the name Shakti Yo...
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âHip Hug-Herâ: Up Close And Personal With Booker T & The MGs
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âHip Hug-Herâ: Up Close And Personal With Booker T & The MGs
Booker T & The MGs functioned as the musical engine room of Stax Records and were the driving force behind much of the music that emanated out of the labelâs HQ at 926 East McLemore Avenue in Memphis. As well as backing almost every other artist on the label â from Rufus Tho...
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How The Kingston Trio Revived Folk Music And Got America Singing
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How The Kingston Trio Revived Folk Music And Got America Singing
The Kingston Trio have a central place in the folk music revival of the late 50s and early 60s, when, for a couple of years, they were arguably the most popular vocal group in the world.
Senator Joe McCarthyâs communist witch-hunts in the early 50s had damaged folk music, brand...
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Best Ronnie Wood Songs: 20 Essential Tracks
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Best Ronnie Wood Songs: 20 Essential Tracks
Ronald David Wood, artist, songwriter, and one of Britainâs finest, and possibly most underrated, guitar players was born on June 1, 1947. His is a musical family: Ronnieâs older brother Art formed the Artwoods, who included Jon Lord, later to a co-founder of Deep Purple, and dr...
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âIâm Coming Outâ: Diana Rossâ Eternal, Uplifting Anthem
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âIâm Coming Outâ: Diana Rossâ Eternal, Uplifting Anthem
In the decade after leaving The Supremes in 1970, Diana Ross had enormous success. She released ten solo albums, starred in Lady Sings the Blues and The Wiz, and was named the âFemale Entertainer of the Centuryâ by Billboard. But by the end of the decade, she knew it was time to...
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âEyes Without A Faceâ: Billy Idolâs Dreamy Ballad With A Dark Inspiration
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âEyes Without A Faceâ: Billy Idolâs Dreamy Ballad With A Dark Inspiration
Billy Idol was already a punk star and a rock star by the early 1980s. âEyes Without a Faceâ made him a pop star. But behind the 1984 hit balladâs romantic pulse, satiny sheen, and creamy melody lies a backstory involving freaky horror movies, sexual transgressions, Idol held at...
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Is Blink-182âs âEnema Of The Stateâ The Definitive Pop-Punk Album?
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Is Blink-182âs âEnema Of The Stateâ The Definitive Pop-Punk Album?
As the 90s drew its last breath and prepared for the new millennium, a noticeable change began to take hold on the front lines of US college radio â one which, eventually, would spark a global revolution within alternative rock music. âPop-punkâ as a term doesnât sit well with m...
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âAs Long As I Have Youâ: Roger Daltrey Shows His Soul
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âAs Long As I Have Youâ: Roger Daltrey Shows His Soul
Admirers of one of the definitive rock voices who were excited by Roger Daltreyâs return in his own name in March 2018, with the single âAs Long As I Have You,â soon had a full album to savour.
The Who frontmanâs set of the same name followed on Universal on June 1, and was his...
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âSpoonfulâ: Howlinâ Wolfâs Classic Blues Song
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âSpoonfulâ: Howlinâ Wolfâs Classic Blues Song
In 1960, Chicago-based Chess Records released a single that became one of the most influential and much-covered recordings in its catalogue. It was called âSpoonfulâ and was delivered by a singer who, at six feet three inches tall, and weighing 300lbs, was an imposing figure of...
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âRidinâ Highâ: Martha Reeves & The Vandellas Move On Up
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âRidinâ Highâ: Martha Reeves & The Vandellas Move On Up
Martha Reeves & the Vandellas â with the lead singerâs surname recently added to the group name â started 1968 with the song that turned out to be their final R&B top tenner. âHoney Chileâ also climbed to No.11 on the pop chart and was followed by the funky âI Promise To...
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â666â: The Mind-Bending Aphroditeâs Child Masterpiece
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â666â: The Mind-Bending Aphroditeâs Child Masterpiece
Itâs a wonder that Aphroditeâs Childâs 666 ever got made at all. The Greek group had made two albums in the 1960s before their country was thrown into chaos via a right-wing military coup. Two of the three musicians â keyboardist Vangelis and singer/bassist Demis Roussos â fled...
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