the singer/songwriter’s smoldering tone and earworm melodies are the centerpiece of songs like “Electricity” and “Reverse Skydiving,” both of which she co-wrote.
Monáe in the animated hit "Rio 2" (2014), and also wrote and performed a song for the soundtrack, "What Is Love." Monae's acting career took a major stride forward with her starring role alongside Octavia Spencer in the '60s-set NASA-based drama "Hidden Figures" (2016). Follo...
that it was a good song. And if you didn't fight for it, it wasn't worthnothing," Cropper says, chuckling. "He was right. I think about that all the time, but I don't use it.A songwriter could tell me how good a song they wrote is, but if I ...
Ronson co-produced and co-wrote "I'm Just Ken" [From The Motion Picture Barbie] with longtime collaborator Andrew Wyatt. The pair won the 2019 Best Original Song Oscar for their co-write on A Star Is Born cut "Shallow," and also picked up Best Song Written for Visual Media with the ...
Avicii, the Grammy-nominated electronic dance DJ who performed sold-out concerts for feverish fans around the world and also had massive success on U.S. pop radio, died Friday. He was 28.Publicist Diana Baron said in a statement that the Swedish performe
With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies. Lady Gregory produced a number of books of retellings of stories taken from Irish mythology. Born into a class that identified closely...
If I wrote only one book review this month (that is now looking fairly certain) the book review I had to write was this one. Despite having another terrible month in blogging terms, I have enjoyed what I have been reading, and the highlight of the month has been this long awaited biog...
comes a track that sees vinyl much sooner. John's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," inspired by Keith's erratic personality, is recorded at IBC Studios, London. John later says this song and others he wrote during this period were for a Who children's album planned by manager Kit Lambert. ...
The Who are an English rock band, notable for their albums Tommy, Who's Next, and Quadrophenia. They are known as one of the greatest rock bands of all-time and are also notable for three of their hits, "Who Are You," "Baba O' Riley," "We Don't Get Foole
In addition to drumming for the seminal English band, The Moody Blues, Graeme Edge wrote spoken-word poems that, along with the orchestral and progressive elements of the band, helped define them as true pioneers. Their most famous song, 1967’s “Nights In White Satin,” includes Graeme’s...