By the time the Carpenters made their fourth studio album A Song For You, their place in the firmament of pop music was so assured
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Following 1995’s Exit Planet Dust and 1997’s Dig Your Own Hole, all eyes were on crossover UK dance act The Chemical Brothers. Surrender, released on
It’s an absolute classic, a power ballad and one that became the template for so many that followed in the 1980s by all those “hair
A song with Japanese lyrics that few international listeners could understand, sporting an original title that translated as “I Look Up When I Walk,” recorded
American songwriter and jazz pianist Cy Coleman may not quite be up there with the Gershwins and Porters in terms of his worldwide reputation. But
Before The Weeknd became a chart-topping pop star, the singer was a faceless force of the underground alt-R&B scene. Born Abel Tesfaye, the Toronto native
“In a tuxedo, I’m a star. In regular clothes, I’m a nobody.” So said Dean Martin, a man of many faces. Velvet-voiced crooner of some
The Statler Brothers are not biological kin, and none of them are named Statler. But neither of those details kept them from turning their particular
It’s a wonder that Aphrodite’s Child’s 666 ever got made at all. The Greek group had made two albums in the 1960s before their country
Good Girl Gone Bad opens with Jay Z introducing Rihanna as a “good girl gone bad,” but at this stage in her career, the rising