Released in March 1983, The Man From Utopia arrived at a turning point in Frank Zappa’s career. It was the first album after the biggest
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Wilson Phillips seemed to have arrived out of nowhere, though it was actually the result of several years’ hard work by three young, Los Angeles-based
There are examples of records that gave a name to a whole genre (like “Rapper’s Delight,” which used the term “hip-hop” on wax for the
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”
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,