It’s no secret that John Lennon of the Beatles and Cilla Black were romantically involved in the early 60s. In fact, John (and Paul) wrote and recorded a song called “It’s For You” for Cilla, pressing it on the Dick James Label. 50 years have come and gone; the lost artifact was found last year […]
Bad Company is 40+ years old, and the boys are out again in tour. It’s also hard to believe that founding member, guitarist and key songwriter Mick Ralphs is not with the band this time around. Rich Robinson of the famed ‘Black Crowes’ will step in behind the kit to play in Mick’s absence. You […]
It may feel like a Monday, but it’s the Tuesday after Labor Day – there goes the summer! Here are your Monday morning music news headlines… The Moody Blues just announced their 2018 celebrity cruise out of Miami. The dates are January 2nd through the 7th with stops at the Grand Cayman and Cozumel ports. […]
It’s another Labor Day weekend, we hope you enjoy the day away from work. There have been a ton of great songs in music pertaining to ‘jobs,’ so we thought we’d put together a list of the notable tunes… ‘Working in a Coal Mine’ by Lee Dorsey ‘Working for a Living by Huey Lewis and […]
Rock and roll is all about everything around us. What isn’t in front of our faces more than the transportation around us? Let’s take a look at rock songs that rocked out about them… “409” was a classic Beach Boy’s song written by Mike Love, Brian Wilson, and Gary Usher in early 1962. Only the […]
The Grim Reaper will be on our doorstep one day, there’s no way around it. Famous people die all the time, often times in unusual ways. It might seem morbid, but let’s see how good you are at remembering the past. Match the celebrity with the way they died….. (A) = Death in plane crash […]
The 80s was a decade of awakening for our country; The Cosby Show was a hit, the Challenger blew up on liftoff, we saved ‘baby Jessica,’ early investors of Microsoft and Apple are now millionaires, and the music was hot. Here are more of the best LPs of the 80s… “Born in the U.S.A.” by […]
If you were born with the name Patricia Mae Andrzejewski and wanted to be a rock and roll star, you might change your name to Pat Benatar too! Ms. Benatar was born in Brooklyn in 1953, growing up operatically trained as a singer with the chops of a rocker, which was highly unusual at the […]
The 80s was an interesting decade, perhaps one of the greatest set of years since the 60s, in that it was the very birth of the internet, tech companies, the top 1%, and ultimately Reganomics, the ‘Trickle Down Economics’ that greatly impacted our country. Here are the 80s albums that remain part of our music […]
In the early days of rock and roll, a band would get signed, write some catchy songs, record the catchy songs, then work with the label to pick the singles to release and hit the road. Here’s the skinny; if you want to make money in the early days, you’ve got to have a song […]