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Following their seventh studio set, 1987’s platinum-certified Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough), Tom Petty briefly took a break from working with his long-term backing...

The 1972 album Norma Deloris Egstrom From Jamestown, North Dakota was Peggy Lee’s 40th and final LP for Capitol Records. It was a team effort:...

It may seem, from this distance, that Diana Ross had it all her own way and became an immediate solo sensation when she left the...

Post-rock’n’roll, pre-British invasion American pop is seen by some po-faced music historians as a uniformly barren time. But while it’s true that there were some...

In April 1972, recording veteran Peggy Lee, then a few weeks shy of her 52nd birthday, could look back with pride on a long and...

It was the brief period when the golden-haired guitarist hooked up with the sun-kissed heroes of harmony. At the end of an enforced, four-month spell...