February 2024

With a positive response to her sociopolitical album Nina Simone in Concert in 1964 (which features the seminal track “Mississippi Goddam”), as well as civil...

Perhaps it was a masterpiece. But whose? It was 1973 and The Temptations thought (perhaps hoped) they were at a crossroads. Their records had been...

After a tentative commercial start with their self-titled 1973 debut, the Chicago soul and funk A-listers who made up Rufus hit their stride. Their next...

In the last few days of January 1964, The Rolling Stones recorded the final version of what became their third UK single. It was called...

It wasn’t quite rags to riches, but the story of Welsh singer Mary Hopkin’s dizzy rise during 1968 takes some beating. In May of that...