Author: Thomas Newman

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…

After launching their career in the early ’60s as backing singers, Sonny and Cher reached worldwide attention in 1965 with the release of their mega-selling single, I Got You Babe. Over the next decade, they…

The Donnie Darko Soundtrack is at times thoughtful, haunting, weird, and alarming, but that is as it should be, and it suits the film. The first Donnie Darko Soundtrack didn’t initially include all the music…

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…

The Wedding Singer is a great film, with both Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore delivering standout performances in this cute story about a wedding singer who falls in love with a waitress. But would it…

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…

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 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…