In the summer of 1973, Stax recording star Johnnie Taylor was making some of the sweetest soul music, and his fans were lapping it up.
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A first smash hit single can provide the cutting edge to slice through the competition and get an artist noticed, but that sword often has
When did the Rolling Stones play their first gig? Well, the story begins in the summer of 1962. Blues Incorporated, Alexis Korner’s band had a
Def Leppard’s exuberant 1980 debut, On Through The Night, showed great promise and yielded unexpected UK Top 20 success, but its accomplished follow-up, High’n’Dry, banished
The death of Hank Williams on New Year’s Day, 1953 was an all-too-predictable tragedy, given his history of alcohol and drug abuse. But if anything,
While most Summer Of Love stories focus on flocks of hippies heading to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco (as per Scott McKenzie’s hit “San
The up-and-coming phenomenon of Mersey Beat got its own name and magazine, when the fortnightly newspaper of that name published its first edition for the
On a July day in 1958, the performing talents of Buddy Holly were intertwined with the writing nous of Bobby Darin. The net result was a
Baker Knight is proof that sometimes you can have a catalog of hit songs without ever becoming a household name. The writer and musician from
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