Stories, people & moments worth remembering
Long before electric instruments reshaped modern pop radio, an anonymous folk ballad circulated through generations of singers. In 1964, a gritty performance by Newcastle rock band The Animals turned that mysterious, uncredited traditional tune into a worldwide chart-topping triumph.
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Before defining the Motown sound, the Four Tops spent a decade performing standard pop tunes in relative obscurity. Their trajectory shifted when...
Before Leonard Cohen ever stepped into a recording booth, he was an acclaimed Canadian poet and novelist who agonized over every line. His painst...
Donald McLean was delivering newspapers in New Rochelle when he learned that Buddy Holly had died in a 1959 plane crash. More than a decade later...
When Doris Day recorded "Que Sera, Sera" for Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 suspense thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much, nobody anticipated it becoming...
By 1970, The Kinks faced declining commercial momentum and desperately needed a hit. Ray Davies found their salvation not in heavy guitar riffs,...
While riding a prop plane across Europe in 1968, Robin Gibb turned the steady mechanical hum of an engine into a choral harmony. That airborne in...