Insurance or no, they became an in-house songwriting team at Stax Records, and their collaboration yielded 30 R&B chart hits between 1966 and 1971. (Sometimes Hayes played keyboards on songs they'd written together, or Porter sang backup.) In particular, they were the songwriting masterminds ...
This 1998 entry from Boston greats Aerosmith was initially planned as a radio-only release before Columbia Records changed tack and issued the song commercially. “I Don't Want To Miss A Thing” shot straight in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains the band's only single to do...
He’d just signed a deal with Epic Records for multiple albums; plus, he found the suggestion a bit distasteful, as he admitted to UCR in 2021: “I was offended that [my manager] would ask me that, because I was such a fan of Richie Blackmore. Nobody can replace Ritchie Blackmore....