Urban Cowboy is a great film, but its soundtrack deserves every bit as much attention. Stuffed with songs by the likes of Kenny Rogers, Mickey Gilley, the Eagles, Johnny Lee, Bonnie Raitt, and more besides, it’s been credited with pioneering the soft-core, mellow country sounds that came to dominate country music in the ’80s. If…
Looks can be deceiving – this is a phrase everyone knows well. Sometimes, things look bad, but they aren’t. However, looks can also be incredibly accurate – this too is a phrase everyone knows well. Sometimes, things look good, and they are. The same goes for songs – sometimes a song sounds good, and sometimes…
Chick Corea gave a lot to the music world as a Jazz keyboard player but more so as the founder of one of the most prominent jazz-rock fusion acts of the late 1900s – Return to Forever. Return to Forever – like the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report was formed by a former member of…
When Toby Keith first rode into Nashville in the early 1990s, no one paid any attention. After trying and failing to win a record deal, he cut his losses and headed home. But then a flight attendant and fan of his handed a copy of his demo to Harold Shedd at Mercury during a flight….
Pink Floyd is a classic rock band that has grown and evolved over its long and successful career in the music industry. The band’s configuration changed with only the name and drummer Nick Mason remaining as consistent icons since its inception and tours between 1968 through 1979. The five-member band maintained its signature sound throughout,…
Amy Burned fast and bright and burnt out quickly. It’s been ten years since her death, and already people are talking about a legacy too large to be contained by just one woman. In the world of music biopics, Amy may be on her way to becoming this generation’s La Bamba or Love & Mercy….
That Aretha Franklin is one of the greatest vocalists the world has ever known isn’t up for debate. Neither is her title as the Queen of Soul. Over the course of her life, she scored 17 top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, 20 No. 1s on the R&B charts, 18 Grammys, and over…
The Backstreet Boys are an all-male vocal group that was formed in 1993 in Orlando, Florida. Kevin Richardson, Brian Littrell, AJ McLean, Howie Dorough, and Nick Carter are the five members of the group who focused on pop more than any other genre. They released their self-titled debut album in 1996. Although the group was…
Hailing from Ondres, France is the French heavy metal band known as Gojira. Brothers Joe and Mario Duplantier team up with Christian Andreu and Jean-Michel Labadie and originally called the name of their band Godzilla. However, Godzilla was changed to Gojira in 2001. As for the band members, this core roster has remained the same….