Session Musician Spotlight: Harvey Mason
With a career spanning over fifty years, one would be hard-pressed to find a genre of music that drummer Harvey Mason hasn’t touched. This ten-time...
‘Nobody Was Going To Stop Us’: OMD On Their Self-Titled Debut Album
Aside from attracting widespread critical acclaim, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’s debut single, “Electricity,” led to the band signing a major record deal with Virgin...
Why Natalie Cole’s ‘Unpredictable’ Success Was In Her DNA
As many scions of feted pop stars and Hollywood royalty will no doubt attest, it’s difficult growing up in the shadow of a famous parent....
Soul Walk: Edwin Starr Marches Into Pop And R&B Top Tens With ‘Twenty-Five Miles’
The protagonist in a new hit song of February 1969 was getting desperate. “I’ve been walking for three days, two lonely nights,” he told us....
Best New Jack Swing Songs: 40 Party Starting Jams
In 1987, writer Barry Michael Cooper went to Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater to interview then-20 year old Teddy Riley about the new R&B sound the...
Did Peggy Lee Really Inspire The Margarita?
Whether a blessing or a curse, fame – measured today by the number of social media followers a celebrity has – can bring its privileged...