By 1983, Donna Summer was a bona fide global star. She’d followed up the success of her 1975 gold-selling single “Love You Love You Baby”
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Photos: Gems/Redferns (Bill Bruford), Ed Perlstein/Redferns/Getty Images (Carl Palmer), Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images (Neil Peart) The rock’n’roll cliché says that the drummer is always the wildest,
Blue Note’s co-founder Alfred Lion had a penchant for pianists who sounded different. In 1947, he signed Thelonious Monk, famed for his blend of dissonance
Teen pop sensation Lesley Gore wasn’t known for making statements in her songs before she released “You Don’t Own Me.” At 16, she was discovered
The Mavericks have always lived up to their name. A country band formed in Miami? That’s rule number one broken right there. A first generation
Common is one of the most renowned MCs in the history of hip-hop, helping to put Chicago on the map, as the East and West
“I’m the bop writer!” boasts a character in The Subterraneans, Jack Kerouac’s 1958 semi-autobiographical novella set in the jazz districts of New York. The book,
It may not have the universal appeal of the illustrious Grammy Awards, but the annual British Record Industry Trusts Show Awards (aka the BRITs) remains
Brian Jones died tragically young, aged just 27, on July 3, 1969. He was in The Rolling Stones for seven years and his importance to
Having taken 1994 off to regroup, buy a house in the Somerset countryside, and write her third album, PJ Harvey reappeared in February 1995, a