The compact disc was still two years away when Dire Straits released their third album in 1980, with the gargantuan Brothers In Arms probably not
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Ian Gillan was on his way to being a superstar with Deep Purple when he played one in the lead role of a musical. It was the
Released on October 11, 1976, ABBA’s fourth album Arrival marked the moment when everything moved up a gear for the group. The Eurovision Song Contest
A rough rule that reggae fans discover early on is not just to look at the name of the artist on a record that’s unknown
In July 1948, Lionel Hampton’s Orchestra was on tour across America. Traveling with them was a young 25-year-old guitarist who was beginning to make a
The charming “Seaside Woman,” the 1977 single that became the centerpiece of Linda McCartney’s posthumous solo album, Wide Prairie, was written by the singer during
Ever since The Beach Boys had a Top 20 US hit with their second single, “Surfin’ Safari,” the group were under pressure to deliver. Their
When 27-year-old Julian “Cannonball” Adderley went up to New York from his native Florida in the summer of 1955, he blew the Big Apple jazz
Seven albums and 16 years into their career, and Risk proved to be as much of a gamble in its nature as it was in
Even someone who had switched off from rave music for a few years in the early 90s would have been startled by the drum’n’bass that