This bio says that Carl Perkins gave a lot of credit to Bill Monroe as a grandfather of rockabilly. That’s an example of the beauty of music: The direct...
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Little Eva was the inspiration for The Locomotion, which was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin.
The start of Rolling Stone’s bio of AC/DC: AC/DC ‘s rowdy image, giant riffs and macho lyrics about sex, drinking and damnation have helped make...
Dennis Potter was an English screenwriter/playwright known for mixing fantasy and reality. His best known works — Pennies from Heaven (above) and The...
I was looking for a nice afternoon post and happened across this famous photograph. Here is the story of the shot, which features just about every famous jazz...
The Rolling Stones have released a new song for the first time in six years. Gloom and Doom, according to Consequence of Sound, is one of two new songs that...
Digital Dream Door is quite a site for music lovers. Here is its take on the top ten songs of 1950. Number 9, of course, is of special note because it became...
Many folks reading this post know more about Miles Davis than I do. So it makes little sense for me to write anything about the second most important trumpet...
This is from the listing in This Day in Music for Sept. 12, 1964. The Supremes, The Shangri-La’s, Marvin Gaye, Dusty Springfield, The Ronettes, Millie...
