July 2024

The American singles chart presence of the Crickets technically ended even before the death of their star Buddy Holly. The group’s name last featured on...

According to hip-hop lore, Def Jam founder Russell Simmons bailed Slick Rick out of jail for a few weeks in the winter of 1990 in...

On July 2, 1979, the Yorkshireman with a penchant for the Bahamas released his fifth studio album in the UK and raised his profile even...

In many ways, Paul Williams was the Temptations’ unsung hero. He and Eddie Kendricks were their original lead singers, but when the Motown group broke...

As part of the celebrated release You’ve Got To Learn, a newly-discovered recording of Nina Simone’s stunning performance at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival, Shana...

By 1990, Gladys Knight – whose rich, sometimes raspy vocals cut to the nerve of a song – had been performing with her family backing...