For decades now, Philadelphia legends The Roots have been hip-hop’s best live band. But their exciting live performances would be nothing without one of the
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For some, 1967’s Summer Of Love had its origins on a mid-January day in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park; for others gathered at the Polo
As an African-American from Sledge, Mississippi, Charley Pride had to work harder to win the acceptance of the country music mainstream. The only black artist
“Music has always been a huge influence on me,” celebrated filmmaker John Singleton told record producer Arthur Baker at the International Music Summit in 2016.
For funk aficionados, James Brown’s 1969/1970 output represents the roots of a revolution – the watershed development of extended grooves from which disco, hip-hop, and
Whereas many artists release their most commercially successful work in their early days, before finding themselves playing to a dwindling – but nevertheless fiercely devoted
When the body of Chet Baker was found, crumpled and bloodied, on an Amsterdam pavement on Friday, 13 May 1988, beneath the third-floor window of
It’s well known that one of the few achievements missing from the epic career of The Who is a UK No.1 single. But there is
The group that landed Motown’s first-ever No.1 and became the company’s first major girl group were still enjoying substantial success half a dozen years later.