After their 1980 debut failed to turn many heads,Huey Lewisand the News needed a hit, plain and simple. Luckily, the harmonica-toting vocalist had an ace in his back pocket that paid off. He reached out to an old friend,Robert John “Mutt” Lange, to see if he might have a song to...
Regardless of the total, Paich's sessions work has snared six Grammy Awards and while helping to sell countless millions of albums. With Toto, the stats are more concrete: 17 albums and 40 million in album sales and over three billion streams to date. He had a hand in all three of the...
Regardless of the total, Paich's sessions work has snared six Grammy Awards and while helping to sell countless millions of albums. With Toto, the stats are more concrete: 17 albums and 40 million in album sales and over three billion streams to date. He had a hand in all three of the...
Among those "many people," Turner praised Graham Lyle and Terry Britten, who wrote the track; John Carter, her A&R "who played a wonderful part" in relaunching her career with Capitol Records in the '80s; and Roger Davies, her manager, "a great man who has done a great job with her...
Blue was more than a career-making album for Joni Mitchell. Every wall had come down, resulting in a crushingly vulnerability that created a blueprint for the modern confessional album. The triumph was that this 1971 LP did what many singer-songwriters aspire to do: Blue took the specific ...
After hiding behind so many contemporary sounds from keyboards to sampling in the '80s, Robert Plant finally was beginning to get comfortable in his own skin. This album has every bit of the sex, humor and boundary-defying punch of Plant's best work, but with a more determined rock focus...
Barbadian singer Rihanna and Canadian rapper Drake had many other writers work on this #1 hit, including Rupert “Sevn” Thomas, who sampled the dance-hall rhythm with an urban and island vibe refrain. With ""Work,” Rihanna achieved a #1 Billboard hit off all seven of her albums, breaking...
Barbadian singer Rihanna and Canadian rapper Drake had many other writers work on this #1 hit, including Rupert “Sevn” Thomas, who sampled the dance-hall rhythm with an urban and island vibe refrain. With ""Work,” Rihanna achieved a #1 Billboard hit off all seven of her albums, breaking...
Barbadian singer Rihanna and Canadian rapper Drake had many other writers work on this #1 hit, including Rupert “Sevn” Thomas, who sampled the dance-hall rhythm with an urban and island vibe refrain. With ""Work,” Rihanna achieved a #1 Billboard hit off all seven of her albums, breaking...
It was a really interesting time for the band. “Owner of a Lonely Heart” came out just 11 years earlier, but it might as well have been 111 years. The rock scene had changed in so many ways. Yeah. The genre had changed, but Yes has always been a constant through all those change...