Grand Funk’s ‘The Loco-Motion’: Chugging Like A Railroad Train To No.1 In 1962, everybody was doing a brand new dance. A dozen years later, everybody in the US was doing it all over again. On May...
‘White Lightning’: Country Hero George Jones Pops Onto The Hot 100 In chart terms, the legend of the man they called “Possum,” the late and great George Jones, was built first and foremost on his achievements...
‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’: Gene Vincent Didn’t Mean Maybe Sometimes pop lyrics don’t have to mean much, they just have to feel good, express youthful joy and be easy to sing. That was often...
‘Eyes Of A Woman’: Agnetha Fältskog Spies The Charts Within two years of her first English-language album Wrap Your Arms Around Me, ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog was walking the solo path again. On May 4,...
‘Music For Installations’: Shining A Light On Brian Eno’s Mercurial Collection Right from the outset, when Roxy Music crashed sideways into the collective consciousness like a retro-futurist rocket, you could tell that a world bounded by...
Drake Responds To Kendrick Lamar with “Family Matters” Drake wastes no time and caps off the week with a response to Kendrick Lamar’s most recent diss records. Over various beats produced by Boi-1da,...