Cat Stevens began the 1970s determined to make up for lost time. Just a month after the April 1970 release of Mona Bone Jakon, an
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The odds were stacked against Tricky. Born Adrian Thaws in Bristol in January 1968, he grew up in Knowle West, one of city’s most deprived
It bore little relation to the deep-thinking album music that Traffic went on to be renowned for. But “Hole In My Shoe” nevertheless remains a
The many phases of Fairport Convention have seen them repeatedly adapt to the various changes in their personnel. On July 3, 1971, they entered the
June 1970 was a breakthrough month for Free. After two years of critical success and building their name as a live attraction, they were finally
Mona Bone Jakon, the third album by Cat Stevens, represented a seismic change in artistic direction and put the singer-songwriter on the road towards being
The fifth album by Grace Jones, 1981’s Nightclubbing, is a self-assured, uncompromising, and alluring classic – a fusion of Jamaican rhythms and musicality with European
Grammy nominee Charley Crockett has signed with Island Records, where he will release his upcoming album Lonesome Drifter on March 14th. The album’s first single,
Though he was just 23 years old when his fifth album, Teaser And The Firecat, was released in October 1971, singer-songwriter Cat Stevens had already
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