What are the bestselling Rock Albums of all time? This list will surprise you. The artists on the list certainly won’t though. Big name after big name had huge selling albums during their time and these are some of those albums that were selling faster than hot cakes. Def Leppard’s “Hysteria” and John Bon Jovi’s […]
How about another Beatles Bite? The Beatles were heavily influenced by the music heard on the British radio coming from America. The soul version in the late 50s “Twist and Shout” had an amazing influence on each of them. Phil Spector’s LA group called the ‘Top Notes’ released the initial version, then the Isley Brothers […]
So what’s in a name? Well often times the band we love was not really the band that began under the name we love them for. You know Richard Steven Valenzuela had his name changed to Richie Valens by his agent right? And Eddie Money was born Eddie Mahoney, or Chicago began as Chicago Transit […]
Maurice White the founder of Earth, Wind & Fire is now gone, and we want to go back and share our thoughts on this brilliant group. In 1969, Windy City musician Maurice White, Al McKay, Andrew Woolfolk, Philip Bailey, Verdine White and Larry Dunn formed the “Salty Peppers.” The band had regional success, but eventually […]
2016 has been a cruel year so far as we’ve lost The Eagles’ Glenn Frey, David Bowie, Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, long time Bee Gees manager and producer Robert Stigwood, Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kantner and original female singer Signe Anderson, Earth Wind and Fire’s Maurice White, and Dale Griffin. We still have however, rockers that are […]
This year is a leap year, meaning there were 29 days in February. Amazingly, that time has already come and gone! Let’s leap in 2016 with a new attitude and showcase the most interesting and lesser known artist of our time with a feature we all ‘A to Z.’ Here’s the letter ‘D.’ In early […]
It’s time for another Motown minute… In 1959, Berry Gordy borrowed start-up money from an uncle and started a record company out of his home on Grand Boulevard in downtown Detroit. His boxing career wasn’t taking off, so he figured he’d do something else with his life. Nearly a billion dollars later, the Motown Sound […]
Let’s leap into 2016 with a new attitude and showcase the most interesting and lesser known artists of our time, with a feature we call ‘A to Z.’ Here is the letter E… “I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night,” was a classic late 60s song from a group of Los Angeles studio musicians […]
It’s not uncommon or politics and rock n’ roll to cross paths, but it’s starting to get interesting. Recently, the Rolling Stones and Elton John have publicly announced that presidential candidate Donald Trump did not have permission to use their songs. What most people don’t know is the campaign does have the right to use […]
Bruce Springsteen has written his memoir “Born to Run” due out in the fall, so let’s share a few more thoughts on our favorite songs, and the backstory behind them. Here’s part two of “The Boss Best.” “Rosalita” from his “The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle” album is a seven-minute classic that […]