‘No Money Down’: A ‘Motorvated’ Chuck Berry Gets His Dream Car The huge success of Chuck Berry’s Chess singles “Maybellene” and “Thirty Days” in the second half of 1955 had the label hurrying to convene another...
Record Labels Run By Musicians: 10 Artists Who Did It Their Way Come the age of the superstar recording artist, it didn’t take long for those in the spotlight to want to take matters into their own...
Reading Between The Bars On Elliott Smith’s ‘Either/Or’ More than 20 years after its original release, on February 25, 1997, Either/Or stands as a devastatingly beautiful record and is widely regarded as Elliot...
A Pearl Of A Singer: Enduring Vocal Stylist Elkie Brooks The great British vocal stylist Elkie Brooks was born Elaine Bookbinder in Salford on February 25, 1945. Elkie has enjoyed huge solo success in a...
‘Against The Wind’: A Bob Seger Classic Of Ballads And Barnburners If you’ve only heard the hit singles on Bob Seger’s Against The Wind, you probably got the wrong idea about the rest of the album....
Best Tenors Of All Time: Top 10 Greatest Who are the greatest tenors of all time? Trying to pin down any Top Ten list is bound to cause disagreement – and so it...