‘Street Of Dreams’: Rainbow’s Soft Rock Serenade
When Rainbow returned to the Billboard Hot 100 for what turned out to be the last time, on November 5, 1983, their seventh studio album...
Eminem Returned To His Creative Peak on ‘The Marshall Mathers LP 2’
The Marshall Mathers LP, released in 2000, represents 27 year-old Eminem coming to terms with his newfound fame, following the pop culture-disrupting debut, The Slim Shady LP...
‘Stones’: Neil Diamond Sings Joni, Cohen, Brel…And Himself
Neil Diamond put in plenty of hard yards to reach the superior status he enjoyed as an American songwriter and performer by the early 1970s....
‘Watching The Detectives’: From One Elvis To Another As Costello Calls
1977 was the year that we said goodbye to one Elvis and hello to another. As we mourned the passing of the King, a new...
‘American IV’: Johnny Cash’s Last Album Of His Lifetime Comes Around
When the Billboard 200 welcomed a 2002 record that was greatly anticipated as the next in an acclaimed series, no one knew quite what significance...
‘Unchained’: Johnny Cash’s Boundary-Breaking ‘American Recordings’ Album
When Johnny Cash released American Recordings in 1994, it was as much a revelation for fans of The Man In Black as it was for...