Author: Thomas Newman

After guitarist Jake E. Lee was fired from Ozzy Osbourne’s band by Ozzy’s wife/manager Sharon, he got to work looking for a frontman to form a band with. The vocalist he eventually settled on was…

Best known for his reverb-laden rockabilly and crooning vocals, singer-songwriter Chris Issak swept to stardom in the early 1990s as a kind of modern-day Roy Orbison. With a repertoire that includes the likes of Wicked…

Countless rock goddesses have and will continue to enchant audiences throughout time. Girls leaven amps, guitars, and drum kits into the most magical soundscapes. Lita Ford has taken rock music to an extra level, with…

Jackie Wilson managed to sell over 100 million records in a career that spanned more than three decades. As the lead singer of the group The Dominoes, he was one of the first artists inducted…

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…

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…