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
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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
R.E.M. Try to Remember ‘Nightswimming’
An album that began with a message to the kids about control (“Drive”) ends with a song suggesting that we’re all powerless in the face
Def Leppard’s tour cycle to promote their fourth album, Hysteria, started on Aug. 27, 1987, in Dublin. But an argument could be made that the