By the middle of 1958, the whirlwind of success that had made Little Richard one of the most exciting stars of the original rock’n’roll era
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The fifth solo album by Don Henley, Cass County, was a delightfully country-flavored return by a figurehead of modern American music. It’s the latest entry

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Succinct and to the point, the title of Imagine Dragons’ third album, Evolve, said it all. The Las Vegas quartet arrived with a bang with

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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