Marvin Gaye was carrying a heavy burden toward the end of 1981. A rough-draft master tape for Gaye’s 16th studio album, In Our Lifetime?, was stolen by
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On paper, Alice in Chains had every reason to be a happy band when it began working on its sophomore full-length album. The Seattle quartet
R.E.M. began crafting their follow-up to Out of Time, just as the album was becoming a multi-platinum blockbuster in the spring and summer of 1991.
AC/DC and church are not often mentioned or even thought of in the same breath. But the Australian group took to the pulpit with 1977’s
The slow buildup that was Al Green’s career since the mid-’60s finally seemed to reach its high point on Let’s Stay Together. Now in his fifth year
Sam Moore, half of the hit-making Stax duo Sam & Dave, didn’t write the lyrics to “Soul Man.” He didn’t play the signature guitar lick on
In the early ’90s, Meg Ryan wasn’t just preventing Tom Hanks from being Sleepless in Seattle. The movie star also was helping R.E.M. avoid getting a
The song was ready. Everything was there: Bass, drums, extra percussion and a smattering of guitars. The country-rock track, recorded over numerous sessions, was ready
Tom Petty once proclaimed that if “you never slow down, you never grow old.” He did very little of that in the final years of his
By 1982, no one was pining for a reunion between Genesis and former frontman Peter Gabriel – excluding the most hardcore prog fans. This was especially