Author: Thomas Newman

Ray Price was a country music singer, songwriter, and well-known record producer. He has been credited to have helped create the Nashville Sound. He was born in Texas in 1926 and was a piano student….

The Alan Parsons Project consisted of Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson, and an ever-evolving line of session musicians and vocalists. Active between 1975 and 1990, they never made too much headway in their native UK, but…

In 1958, a Las Vegas booking agent spotted Wayne Newton (who was still in his junior year at high school at the time) and his brothers performing on a local TV show. He signed them…

The Average White Band was a jazz-funk band from Scotland. Their musical style differed from the other contemporary funk acts by using traditional Scottish folk instruments, such as bagpipes and various forms of drums. The…

Sérgio Santos Mendes, a Brazilian Portuguese, was born on February 11, 1941. He’s a Brazilian musician with over 55 releases. He plays bossa nova heavily crossed with funk and jazz. He is one of the…

In 1984, Eddie Murphy released his third live-action film under the direction of Martin Brest. The comedic tale told the story of Axel Foley, a wise-cracking detective from Detroit who finds himself in Beverly Hills…

Roberta Flack is a singer who became popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She had several hits, including “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” This song won several awards, including an…

After a couple of false starts and a few lineup changes, the Bay City Rollers hit the big time in 1974 with their UK top ten single, Remember. Within a year, they were one of…

Tim Buckley is a notoriously difficult figure to understand as a musician, as many of his songs are known for their dissonant and non-sensical lyrics. However, numerous musicians have attributed special importance to him in…