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On August 31, 1985,  Dire Straits officially conquered America. The Billboard magazine from that date showed the band’s already massively successful Brothers In Arms album taking...

Marvin Gaye was on fire in 1968. The Motown star had been having hits for six years, and had topped the US R&B charts twice...

If the public had reacted with overwhelming positivity to the searing emotional honesty of In The Lonely Hour, “I’m Not The Only One” showed that...

Guided by the redoubtable songwriting team of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, enduring South London quintet Squeeze have created one of the most covetable –...

When the Beach Boys released Sunflower on  August 31, 1970 as their first album on their own Brother label via Reprise, their 16th studio set in just eight...

The end of August 1985 was a typically busy time in the career of the Statler Brothers. The family group from Staunton, Virginia, who had...