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Wilson Phillips seemed to have arrived out of nowhere, though it was actually the result of several years’ hard work by three young, Los Angeles-based...

Paul McCartney once wrote that “your mother should know.” But it was Elsie Starkey, the mother of Ringo Starr, who was key to the creation...

Jessie J’s ascent in 2011 seemed to take about three seconds. One minute, nobody had ever heard of Essex girl Jessica Cornish; the next, she’d...

Loretta Lynn’s pre-eminence on the country music scene of the early 1970s was such that when her 1971 single “I Wanna Be Free” reached No.3,...

Bon Jovi reached melting point with their second album. At least, they did with the title, 7800° Fahrenheit, which represented the temperature at which rock...

He’d been working on becoming an overnight sensation for years, and suddenly he was. The dues-paying of Barry White on the fringes of soul music throughout the 1960s...