Prince – Sign O’ The Times
For me, this is the Prince album, the one where his inventive dancey funk energy met rock ’n’ roll and he just turned in maybe the best album of the ‘80s, period. There were...
Ramblings about My Records
For me, this is the Prince album, the one where his inventive dancey funk energy met rock ’n’ roll and he just turned in maybe the best album of the ‘80s, period. There were...
For the first time since . . . well, maybe ever, I have nearly enough new music from the year that is about to end to thinking about doing a “best of the year”...
It’s hard to believe this was really this long ago, going on 40 years that Prince was on a level where he could put out a new album every year, write and produce for...
There’s no denying the incredible talent and lasting impact of Prince. There’s also no denying that in the ‘80s, I picked up a few of his albums, enjoyed them, but didn’t really become a...
Learning To Crawl was Chrissie Hynde with only Martin Chambers remaining from the original Pretenders – and two years later, Get Close was just Chrissie, three new band members and a boatload of session...
As with most acts, it would seem, I came late to The Pretenders. Not that I didn’t hear their first two records, or at least the singles. I cannot for the life of me...
I’ve discovered a number of really interesting musicians through YouTube over the years. It’s another avenue to get exposure, and as someone who doesn’t listen to the radio or stream music, anything new is...
In the ’70s and ’80s, there came a time in every young man’s life when he became convinced, often by his friends, that signing up with a record “club,” such as Columbia House Records,...
In my personal opinion, “The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson” was the greatest late night talk show of all time – and I’m including the very first years of David Letterman’s show, which...
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