Kiki Dee is the stage name of the English singer Pauline Matthews. Her music career started in 1960. However, she didn’t become well-known until she signed with Elton John’s record label a decade later. Eventually, that led to her performing “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” with the Rocket Man himself in 1976, which propelled her…
Dean Martin was a singer, actor, and comedian who began his career in entertainment in the mid-1940s. He became known as one of the most prominent, popular, and successful entertainers of the 20th century. In 1946, Dean Martin got his career breakthrough in partnership with Jerry Lewis, performing under the name ‘Martin & Lewis.’ After…
Cat Stevens, whose real name is Steven Demetre Georgiou, is a British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He began his career in 1965 and has performed and recorded under several other names, including Steve Adams and Yusuf Islam. Stevens is associated with various music genres, including folk, rock, and pop. Later in his career, he became…
Country music has earned a reputation for sadness. To an extent, that is because of country songs about death, which can be as heart-wrenching as they come. Some of these pack more of an emotional punch than others, thus making them that much more memorable. Here is our opinion of the 20 best sad country…
Chances are good that we will never be able to pinpoint a single moment when the blues came into existence. Sometimes, a genre is too broad to be summed up in such a way. Still, everyone agrees the blues started being documented in the early 20th century, though its roots reach much further back. The…
Coldplay is among the best performing rock bands of our time. The group were initially known as Pectoralz, then they became Starfish, and eventually settled on Coldplay after seeking legal counsel over the different spelling possibilities available for “ColdPlay.” The British rock band boasts nine studio albums, six live albums, and four DVDs. They also…
Outlaw country was a subgenre that thrived in the mid to late 1970s. It was a reaction against the Nashville Sound backed by Music Row executives at the head of the country establishment. As such, outlaw country musicians disregarded profit-maximizing rules and restrictions, spurred on by the counter-culture sentiments that were so common in those…
Chances are good that campfire songs predate civilization. After all, archaic humans were making campfires more than a million years before the emergence of modern humans. Furthermore, our ancestors gained the ability to sing the same way we do more than 530,000 years ago, though that isn’t the same as actually doing so. The idea…
Chickens don’t occupy the same spot as dogs in the popular consciousness. Even so, they have played an integral role in the human experience, which makes sense because they have been with us for such a long time. Specifically, the latest research shows Southeast Asian farmers brought them into existence by domesticating the red junglefowl…