The working relationship between the Temptations and Norman Whitfield was an incredibly fruitful one. Between 1966 and 1974, he produced 25 Top 10 R&B hits
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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
When The Mamas & The Papas climbed from No.12 to No.9 in the UK chart at the tail-end of the Summer Of Love in August 1967 with “Creeque
When Jimmy Buffett got that Monday morning feeling in 1974, he couldn’t have been happier. The Mississippi troubadour was already more than four years into
Inspired early releases like The Scream and Juju quickly secured Siouxsie & The Banshees’ legend, but the enduring British outfit never stopped innovating. Indeed, the
“What’s it all about, Alfie?” the opening line from the Hal David and Burt Bacharach song inspired by the 1966 film Alfie sums up some
Etta James packed a whole lot of music and a whole lot of living into a career that started when she was a teenager and
“Get him to come to New York and I’ll sign him.” Those were Blue Note boss Alfred Lion’s words to London record producer Tony Hall
The Decemberists had nothing to prove when they released their seventh album, What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World, on January 20, 2015. The
Philadelphia soul men the Stylistics were anything but an overnight success story. Formed from members of mid-1960s groups the Percussions and the Monarchs, they first