Ronald Bell said of the song: "The initial idea came from the Quran. I was reading the passage, where God was creating Adam, and the angels were celebrating and singing praises. That inspired me to write the basic chords, the line, 'Everyone around the world, come on, celebration".More...
The last original members of three-time GRAMMY-winning group Kool & The Gang discuss stories behind their classic hits, hip-hop samples, and how they kept the creativity going on their new album.
Big comebacks, creative leaps and multiplatinum records dominated the year's greatest music, as you'll see in the below list of the Top 50 Songs of 1984. As voted on by the UCR staff, these records represent a little bit of everything that went into the year's melange: rock, pop, n...
Gene Autry Here Comes Santa Claus Gene Autry Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer And Other Christmas Classics Andy Williams Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow Andy Williams Merry Christmas Burl Ives Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Burl Ives Traditional Christmas Classics Taylor Swift Last Christmas ...
The next day, I heard the tape and it sounded like a chimpanzee had found a bass in a room and was beating it up. I thought, “I’m never going to drink again. This is the most embarrassing, horrible thing I’ve ever done.” [Laughs] It was a funny moment. But it was such ...
band withVince Neil. Probably, if we would have gone with a ghost name [and not called it Motley Crue], it would have probably done really well. But staying with the name, people were like, “That’s not Motley Crue!” But there are a lot of people that really like the album too...