When The Mamas & The Papas climbed from No.12 to No.9 in the UK chart at the tail-end of the Summer Of Love in August 1967 with “Creeque
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There are many albums on which the Beach Boys underlined that they were an immensely creative collective, and far from being entirely reliant on the
Peggy Lee wasn’t the first to record Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s “I’m A Woman,” but when she did, she owned it entirely. A classic
As The Ed Sullivan Show was to the US, or Der Musikladen (follow-up to Beat-Club) was to Germany, so Top Of The Pops was to
Frank Sinatra ‘Ultimate Christmas’ – album artwork courtesy of Capitol Records/Universal Music Frank Sinatra has returned to the top 10 of the Billboard 200 albums
Carl Wilson is one of the most-loved and much-missed vocalists and musicians of his generation, whose glorious voice and authoritative guitar graced scores of great
If Dire Straits thought the world needed a little break from them after the globe-straddling success of Brothers In Arms, then October 29, 1988 proved
George Harrison was marching confidently on his own personal comeback trail in 1987 when he entered the Billboard charts on October 24, after a five-year
From Spain to Sweden, Austria to Australia and Italy to Ireland, “Video Killed The Radio Star” was one of the biggest No.1s of 1979. On
The story of the recording studio can roughly be divided into two time periods: before and after the 60s. As to exactly where the year