Par for the course, Dr. Dre sampled some old funk tracks, including Sly & the Family Stone's "Thank You," as well as the 1979 ...

The chord progression for the song first came to Billy Joel in a dream then disappeared from his memory. When it came back to ...

Frank Sinatra’s “Come Dance With Me” won the Album of the Year award. Sinatra didn’t show up to the ceremony ... Lewis was charged with shooting a firearm within the city limits. In 1979, the four ...

Lijadu Sisters – “Orere Elejigbo” (Nigeria, 1979) This song blew my mind the first time I heard it ... I love his flow and the melody on this song a lot. The whole album that this song is from goes ...

AC/DC are the best hard rock band in the world, no question, but their sound has always remained somewhat consistent. So, ...

Most Bruce Springsteen fans can point to the different moments in his career that led to him becoming an artist for the ages. One underrated milestone was a pair of concerts held in 1979 that were ...

It’s November 17th and here are some reasons why this day matters in rock history: In 1980, John Lennon and Yoko Ono released ...

Unlikely scenario, but, if someday Genesis—a whimsical prog band who just lost their visionary frontman and who would, within ...

Let's walk down memory lane the Magazine way. Let's regurgitate fifth-rate Low [the David Bowie album] period pieces. Let's ...

The Cure is one of the few bands that can proudly say they’ve never released a bad album. They formed in 1976 in Crawley, ...

Singer-songwriter Christopher Cross funded his first album in an unorthodox way—he sold weed. People reported that the soft ...

Caraline “Kari” Brown’s Mrs Wilson's Children: Adventures at The Welly Club, Hull 1979 – 1981, had its official launch at ...