They were interested in creating complete artistic experiences, something that eventually made them pioneers of the music-video era.
Kevin Godley and Lol Creme were one of the most unusual and inventive partnerships to emerge from British pop music, combining songwriting, studio experimentation, visual art, technology, humor, and an almost cinematic approach to music. Their story began long before they became famous. Godley was born October 7, 1945, in Prestwich, Lancashire,
This “Stand Out Single” is instantly recognizable through its opening guitar riff and Sting’s soaring “I want my MTV”.
“Money for Nothing” backed with the live version of “Love over Gold” (Live) is one of the defining rock singles of the 1980s and the biggest commercial success of Dire Straits. Released on June 28, 1985, as the second single from the landmark album Brothers in Arms, it arrived at a moment when MTV had transformed the
He sang in his church choir, learned to play harmonica, piano, and drums without formal instruction, and quickly demonstrated an uncanny ability to master nearly any instrument placed before him.
Stevie Wonder, born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, in Saginaw, Michigan, is one of the most extraordinary musical talents in popular music history. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Detroit, where he was raised by his mother, Lula Mae Hardaway, after his parents separated. Wonder was born six weeks premature, and the high concentration of oxygen used in
This “Stand Out Single” was a work by Tony Carey. The project’s name was inspired from the fictional “Planet P” in Robert A. Heinlein’s book Starship Troopers.
“Why Me?” was the second U.S. single released from Planet P Project’s self-titled 1983 debut album, a project created by American keyboardist, singer, songwriter, and producer Tony Carey. Carey was already well known among rock fans for his tenure with Rainbow during the mid-1970s before relocating to Germany, where he developed both a solo career and the more experimental Planet P Project.
The album Rumours became a phenomenon almost without precedent, eventually spending 31 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Fleetwood Mac began in London in 1967 during the peak of the British blues explosion, growing directly out of the enormously influential circle surrounding John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers.
This is a series of posts that will talk about some of my favorite songs that contain whistling. See if you agree with any of these!
“Walk Like an Egyptian” is a 1986 pop hit by the Bangles, written by songwriter Liam Sternberg, whose quirky inspiration came from observing people awkwardly balancing themselves on a ferry during rough seas, which he likened to the stylized poses seen in ancient Egyptian art; recorded for the album Different Light,
This is a series of posts that will talk about some of my favorite (parenthetical) songs. See if you agree with any of these!
“(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” is the signature song by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released in July 1976 as the lead single from their album Agents of Fortune, and it remains one of the defining rock recordings of the 1970s. Written and sung by lead guitarist Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser, the song emerged from his reflections on mortality after concerns about his own health
By early 1973, the classic quartet was in place, adopting the name Kiss and developing the now-iconic makeup and stage personas that would become central to their identity.
The band Kiss emerged from the fertile and competitive New York rock scene of the early 1970s, built on a combination of musical ambition, theatrical instinct, and a keen sense of branding that would soon set them apart from virtually every other act of the era. The origins of the group trace back primarily to the partnership between Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley,
DeYoung said in an interview with Circus Magazine in 1979 that the name Styx came up in the discussion of names, and they kept it because “it was one of the hundred names we tried, and it turned out to be the only one that none of us hated”.
The American rock band Styx emerged from the vibrant Chicago music scene in the late 1960s, formed by a group of young musicians whose roots lay in neighborhood friendships, school bands, and a shared fascination with British rock,
For here, am I sitting in a tin can
Far, above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do
David Bowie was born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947, in Brixton, London, England, into a working-class family whose modest circumstances belied the creative intensity that would define his life. His father, Haywood Stenton Jones, worked in promotions for a children’s charity, while his mother, Margaret Mary Burns,
