September 2024

By the summer of 1967, The Beach Boys had racked up enough chart-busters to keep them forever lodged among the top hit-makers of the decade....

It’s fair to say that if you are someone as deeply in love with the worlds of punk rock and heavy metal, and their relationship...

On September 18, 1970, American record buyers had put the Carpenters at No.1 with “Close To You.” In the UK, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles...

Philadelphia horn-blower Lee Morgan had been with Blue Note Records for almost nine years when he recorded Cornbread, his 12th album for the label, in...

Few soul acts could sing their way around a pop hit and give it their own inimitable delivery the way the Four Tops did. The...

John Lennon really could imagine all the people in the latter part of 1971, because so many of them were buying his Imagine album with the...