With a new year in full swing, dig into five trends that will likely have the music industry buzzing in 2025 thanks to XG, Doechii, My Chemical Romance, and other stars. 2024 was a year of unprecedented change in the music industry. Along...
(released in the autumn of 1975) madeKISSrock’n’roll superstars; it climbed into the Top 10 and its accompanying single, “Rock And Roll All Nite,” made it to No.12. The album has everything a heavy metal fan could want: from Gene Simmons, “The Demon,” pounding away on bass,...
it featured iconic moments like the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards,“Frankie Say Relax” t-shirts, and the formation of the charitable supergroup, Band Aid. Oh. And it was also the year ofBorn in the USA,Thriller, andPurple Rain– three enduring titles that need no introduction....
Soul music comes in many forms, and the refined sound of Roberta Flack could not contrast more sharply with the testifyin’ grits’n’gravy of many Southern soul stars. Accompanying herself on piano, this thoughtful and elegant singer played cafes around Washington, DC, in the late 60s, havin...
DON'T cry for me Argentina, the truth is I never left you... how I remember the powerful voice of Julie Covington belting out the powerful lyrics to Evita's best known song. So much so that in 1976 I recall shelling out what must then have been a few pennies for the hit single....
'London Calling' The Clash (1979):This renegade record set a new musical agenda for the '80s by kicking nearly every convention squarely in the rear, even as its hard-eyed sense of topical passion presupposed things like Live Aid.
especially a deaf person who didn’t wear a hearing aid or cochlear implant and had no interest in doing so. He was born to hearing parents, who had decided to send him to deaf specialist preschools and elementary schools so he could have a strong basis of ASL and deaf culture. He was...
The Clash (1979):This renegade record set a new musical agenda for the '80s by kicking nearly every convention squarely in the rear, even as its hard-eyed sense of topical passion presupposed things like Live Aid. Filed Under:ted nugent ...
("Nobody's interested. He should just go away," Morrissey toldNMEin 1987), The Cure's Robert Smith ("A fat clown with makeup weeping over a guitar," he told the same mag in 1989), and Live Aid founder Bob Geldof (whom he described as "a nauseating character" in "A Light That ...
In theory, Bob Dylan performing with Keith Richards and Ron Wood at Live Aid in 1985 should have been a home run. One could imagine Richards and Wood adding ragged harmony vocals, and each supplying wiry guitar solos.Oh but that was not to be. Instead they’re like the two stooges, ...