It arrived via Motown on October 7, 1969, and became the first No.1 hit for the band just a few months later. It marked a new era, as it signaled the arrival of Michael Jackson, who single-handedly altered the course of music, first with his siblings and later as the most ...
It’s kind of hard to believe, but rock was nearly two decades old by the time the 70s rolled around, which meant that things had come a long way from “Rocket 88.” The elements that made it great, however, remained much the same: Electric guitars and a love of the blues underpinne...
Centered on a thick chunk of “Darkness, Darkness,” a 1969 obscurity from soul-pop singer turned Days of Our Lives actress Gloria Loring, the song is a 10-plus-minute slow-burner that builds from psych-folk meditation to mid-’70s Miles Davis-style supernova, with Tyler channeling ...
Nine years later, though, he came awfully close to outdoing himself with ‘Sexual Healing,’ his first non-Motown single (released just two years before he was fatally shot by his father). The steamy track is decidedly more ’80s, with a drum-machine propulsion, busy guitars and a ...
Released in October 1990 as an homage to classic 70s disco and Motown (“When you can’t find the music to get down and boogie/ All you can do is step back in time”), this put Kylie in demi-disco mode, a new tack which had been set in motion by the previous singleBetter The ...
28.‘It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday’ by Boyz II Men Image: Motown The Philly vocal group dominated the charts in the ‘90s largely with old-fashioned R&B songs about love and loss, and few of their hits spur the waterworks quite like this acapella flip of a relative Motow...
: Every two decades, “Feeling” seems to get a once-in-a-lifetime sync: In the mid-late ’90s, it was used as part of a proto-viral bit from hit sitcom Ally McBeal where Calista Flockhart’s title character envisioned a computer-generated dancing baby, then in the mid-’10s, ...
along the lines of the theme fromLove Storyfor the movieEndless Lovestarring Brooke Shields. When Zeffirelli changed his mind and asked Richie if he would add lyrics, the Motown star agreed to write some. Then Zeffirelli made one more request – to add a female singer, someone like Diana ...
One of the great lovelorn singles of the 70s. Diana has been waiting years for a fella to get around to fulfilling his romantic promise in this nuanced 1971 production by Deke Richards. A gloriously breathy performance from Motown’s queen sells this story perfectly. ...
While Aussie rockers Jet's song "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" shares an almost identical melody, drum pattern, and guitar riff with Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life," there hasn't been any legal action from it. The band insisted the song was inspired by Motown, specifically "You Can't Hurry...