The Beatles – Rubber Soul
May's Album of the Month is Rubber Soul, by the Beatles!
Beatles “Overrated?”
It explains 80% of the reason I venture into the Wild West-Meets-Idiocracy world that is Twitter: @Super70sSports. Featuring a hilarious mix of sports clips, ads and a mélange of pop-culture references from the 1960s-to roughly the mid-1990s, the account, started by Moraine Valley Community College, sociology professor Ricky Cobb, is simply the best follow on …
We Got the Beat: Great Drummers in Music
Drummers. Every song needs a good, driving, solid beat. But the oft-asked question is “who did it best?” It’s truly all about individual perspective. Music is subjective. Opinion as to who is the “best,” or who is your favorite varies with each individual. So, we took a poll, to see who the favorites were. Many …
Women of Soul: Breaking Barriers
When I started working on this article, “Women of Soul,” I was initially doing research on another article, “Women of Motown”. To my surprise, I discovered that many of the women who were on our most popular soul music singers list were not signed to this top-selling funk and soul music label. In order to …
Woodstock Redux
It’s Woodstock, fifty years later—the convergence of 60, 70 and some 80-year-olds onto an iconic bowl-shaped venue as they try to buck themselves out of skin that’s liver spotted and crepey in order to make the wry prick of time not feel so poignant or so permanent. It rains. Cold rain and hot earth create …
Denny Laine: On His Own
When you look up the definition of the phrase “Versatile Enigma,” a picture of Denny Laine will surely be near it. Born Brian Frederick Hines in Tyseley, Birmingham, England, the name change occurred very early on with the formation of his first band, The Diplomats. Laine felt that Brian Frederick Hines and the Diplomats sounded …
Steve Winwood: A Higher Love
What do the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith all have in common? The brilliant and amazing singer and songwriter Steve Winwood, for starters. Winwood began playing piano at 4 years old and started playing drums and guitar soon after. His first live performance came when he was 8 years old, but he had …
Tony Bennett: The Beat of My Heart
Born and raised in the Queens area of New York to an Italian-American family, Anthony Dominick Benedetto, better known professionally as “Tony Bennett” truly has nothing left to prove. He’s now 95 years old, fighting Alzheimer’s, but not allowing this disease to keep him from living. Bennett started singing at a very young age. By …
The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night: Retro Movie Review
Over five decades after its release, The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night has aged very well, and is not dated; it stands outside its time, its genre, and even rock music. It is one of the great life-affirming landmarks of musical movies. When it opened in September 1964, many critics attended the viewing, prepared to …
