Thin Lizzy’s album Bad Reputation came out in September 1977 and became their first to crack the UK top 10, making No.4 and going on
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Don Williams was nicknamed the Gentle Giant at a not-quite towering 6’1”. He was giant, though, when it came to his success on the country
It seems like just yesterday Eminem was scandalizing suburban America with his special brand of biting lyricism and perverse humor, but even hip-hop grows up
We’re celebrating one of the UK’s most consistently creative singer-songwriters and frontmen of the past five decades, with 20 of the best songs in the
When child actress turned singer Angélica María recorded La Novia de la Juventud in 1966, Mexican teens were in the throes of rock-and-roll mania. Appearing
Jorge Ben never quite fit any of the Brazilian music trends of the 1960s and 1970s. He was friends with seemingly everyone, though: Ben was
It’s a song that’s part of the fabric of rock history. So it’s strange to think that, when it was first released by Dire Straits
It took Simple Minds eight years to become overnight sensations in America. That was the gap from their year of formation to their first US singles
An on-off guitarist for Bob Dylan, an acclaimed film composer, and a five-year spell as a macadamia nut farmer in Hawaii… It’s an unconventional career
Ever since the song “Indestructible” was released on the Ray Barretto album of the same name in 1973, listeners have shouted along to smooth-voiced vocalist