Released on September 19, 1970, After The Gold Rush was Neil’s third album. Now long respected as one of Neil’s finest albums, an initial review in Rolling Stone magazine said:
“Neil Young devotees will probably spend the next few weeks trying desperately to convince themselves that After the Gold Rush is good music. But they’ll be […]

Napster was a file sharing service led the technological drive for P2P file-sharing programs such as Kazaa, Limewire, iMesh, Morpheus, and BearShare, which are now used to download music, pictures, movies, and other files. Napster specialized in music files in MP3 format and had a very easy to navigate user-friendly interface. The result was a […]

Five For Fighting is the work of singer-songwriter John Ondrasik, a confessed hockey fan, who started the band in the late Nineties. From the school of Elton John and Billy Joel, he adopted the name “Five for Fighting,” which is an expression in ice hockey when a player receives a five-minute penalty for fighting. Ondrasik […]

James Brown, The Godfather of Soul Brown died on Christmas Day, December 25th, 2006 at Atlanta’s Emory Crawford Long Hospital of congestive heart failure. He was 73.
Wikipedia reports that after Brown’s death his relatives and friends, a host of celebrities and thousands of fans attended public memorial services at the Apollo Theater in New York […]

Marquee Moon was the 1977 debut from the ground breaking New York punk and new wave band Television. Television were one of the mainstay bands from the CBGB music scene in the mid-70’s. The album featured lyricist abd guitarist Tom Verlaine, second guitarist Richard Lloyd, bassist Fred Smith and drummer Billy Fica. Despite critical acclaim […]

David Bowie entered the Eighties by releasing one of his biggest selling and best albums, Scary Monsters. Released on September 12, 1980. It was his first following the so-called ‘Berlin Trilogy’ of Low, Heroes and Lodger released between 1977 and 1979.
Scary Monsters has some classic Bowie songs including the title song, “Up The Hill Backwards,” […]

Dusty Springfield’s fifth studio album, Dusty in Memphis, brought the sultry-voiced British chanteuse across the ocean for recording sessions teaming her with Atlantic Records’ Jerry Wexler as well as producer Arif Mardin and engineer Tom Dowd, all of whom were key to Aretha Franklin’s sound. The result was an enduring, timelessly powerful and sexy soul-jazz […]

Johnny B. Goode is a song written by Chuck Berry about a poor country boy becoming a star by hard work and his skill at playing the guitar. Although partly autobiographical, the inspiration for the song is said to have been Johnnie Johnson who played the piano and composed several songs with Berry. As for […]

Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), was an American jazz singer born Eleanora Fagan and later nicknamed Lady Day. According to Holiday’s accounts, she was recruited by a brothel, worked as a prostitute, and was eventually imprisoned for a short time. It was in Harlem in the early 1930s that she started […]

The Beatles ninth album, “The Beatles” was released in 1968 and is usually referred to as “The White Album” because of its pop art white sleeve. The album was recorded between May 30, 1968 and October 14 1968 primarily at Abbey Road Studios. It was at some of these sessions that Yoko Ono first made […]