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“[The] day of the group is almost gone,” the rockerdeclaredduring a panel at the Sanremo Music Festival in Italy. “Were there any groups at the Grammys this year?” A glance at this year’s Grammy nominees certainly backs up Taylor’s observation. Though the rock categories still featu...
This is a critical time for Bryan Ferry. The architect of one of the most influential rock bands of the Seventies has lately become the target of nearly every disaffected critic with venom in his biro. He was always, perhaps, one of the most vulnerable of the rock elite; ridiculed often ...
A traditional history of rock music divides up the genre into chronologically discrete eras, the fifties, the sixties and the seventies. Due to its convoluted influence streams, black popular music, especially funk must be looked at differently. Following on from the narrowly defined funk of James...
Summer was a popular theme in Pop music with songs including Summer in the City, Hot Fun in the Summertime and In the Summertime. Here are some quizzes about some of the many other songs about summer.
Duran DuranbassistJohn Taylorthinks music groups are a dying breed. “[The] day of the group is almost gone,” the rockerdeclaredduring a panel at the Sanremo Music Festival in Italy. “Were there any groups at the Grammys this year?” ...
and also the man responsible for the guitar freak-out on the Dr. No soundtrack album. CBS and RCA started releasing records of his free jazz groups. They started innocently enough, but eventually Russell started to break free. At a time when hollow body guitars and a clean sound were the...
When I first heard this magnificent Columbian salsa LP, I took it as advertised – a collaboration between two groups. One must be a duo of talented siblings (Meridian Brothers), the other a collective looking to bring back the glory days of the Bogota scene (El Grupo Renacimiento, or “...
“Scripture Chase” skills that came from showing up at 6 AM in the morning at the church and studying scriptures and Gospel concepts from 9ththrough 12thgrade. It was one of those rights of passage I think even more so growing up in Mormon culture in the Seventies. We actually had a ...
* Dah Acme Stomperz and Jaws of the Flying Carpet. Both these bands were experimental music groups in the seventies and eighties heavily influenced by Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa. They performed both original and cover material. * The Blue Angels ...