The 20th Anniversary multi-format anniversary edition reissue of U2’s global smash hit album All That You Can’t Leave Behind – featuring a brand new 12-track remaster of the record and a 51-track Super Deluxe box set – is available now. To celebrate the release, Live In Boston – the concert film capturing the band’s June […]
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of his seminal album ‘Tumbleweed Connection’, Elton John has today unveiled a previously unheard jazz version of ‘Come Down In Time’. Limited to just 5,000 copies of 10″ vinyl available today, ‘Come Down In Time (Jazz Version)’ hadn’t been heard for close to 5 decades until this year, it […]
“Eye of the Beholder” is a song by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on October 30, 1988, as the second single from their fourth studio album, …And Justice for All. The song has not been performed live in its entirety since 1989. It has, however, always formed part of the medleys […]
Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” has entered the Top 10 on Billboard’s streaming songs chart all because of renewed attention from a viral TikTok video. It all started when Idaho Falls resident Nathan Apodaca posted a clip of himself in early October, sipping cranberry juice and lip synching to “Dreams” as he skateboarded down the street after […]
“Wipe Out” is a surf rock instrumental composed by Bob Berryhill, Pat Connolly, Jim Fuller and Ron Wilson. It is a twelve-bar blues first performed and recorded by The Surfaris, who became known worldwide with the release of the “Surfer Joe”/”Wipe Out” single in 1963. The single was first issued on the independent labels DFS […]
Sony/ATV Music Publishing paid tribute to the iconic rock band Queen and its significant achievements in the Million-Air awards category at the 2020 BMI London Awards, which were announced on October 5. The Million-Air awards recognize iconic songs that have reached a million or more broadcast performances by UK and European songwriters and publishers. Queen […]
On this day, 34 years ago, “Bat Out of Hell”, written by Jim Steinman, for the 1977 album Bat Out of Hell and performed by Meat Loaf, was released. The record was released as a single in 1979, and again in 1993. Like most songs on the album, the song was written about Peter Pan […]
The late rockstar Chris Cornell was voted “Rock’s Greatest Singer” by readers of Guitar World, and ranked No. 4 on the list of “Heavy Metal’s All-Time Top 100 Vocalists” by Hit Parader, No. 9 on the list of “Best Lead Singers of All Time” by Rolling Stone, and No. 12 on MTV’s “22 Greatest Voices […]
“Sweet Caroline” is a song written and performed by American singer Neil Diamond and released in May 1969 as a single with the title “Sweet Caroline”. It was arranged by Charles Calello, and recorded at American Sound Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. “Sweet Caroline Good times never seemed so good I’ve been inclined To believe they […]
Tainted Love” is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of American group the Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964. It attained worldwide fame after being covered and reworked by British synth-pop duo Soft Cell in 1981 and has since been covered by numerous groups and artists. Buoyed by the […]