Sometimes a song is too racy for radio, or too political, and it gets banned from airplay. Swearing, incitement, sex, […]
Music evolves, as much by imitation as by inspiration. Every generation of musicians has been inspired, borrowed from, their predecessors, […]
It’s hard to imagine a world that had not yet heard The Beatles, Bob Dylan. The Rolling Stones. They were […]
Queen Elizabeth II features in in a surprising number of rock and pop songs. Sometimes, she’s mentioned in fondness, other […]
Nat King Cole had one of his biggest hits in 1948 with Nature Boy, an enchanting song that became a […]
1992 was the year compact discs overtook cassette tapes as the most popular way to get recorded music. Silence of […]
Lamont Dozier was one of the great Motown songwriters. He got some of his best lines from listening to people […]
Olivia Newton-John was singing live on Melbourne TV shows in her teens, a confident performer blessed with a voice that […]
Judith Durham’s astonishing voice was the spark that ignited the talents of her Seekers bandmates Athol Guy, Keith Potger, and […]
Sometimes a song changes lives, nations, the way we understand ourselves and each other. Archie Roach wrote such a song. […]
Hard to believe it’s 40 years on from 1982, a year of brilliant music. Rock shared the airwaves with new […]
By the late 1960s, we had turned from singles to albums, on which the sequences in which the songs were […]
There are lots of reasons artists record each other’s songs. Encouragement, tribute, or a feeling they could make it a […]
Queen named some of their early albums after Marx Brothers films. but it was another comedy act that chased them […]
For a very long time, top 40 charts were the measure of success in the rock and pop business. Getting […]
Rarely does a band make an album that captures its time and still sounds fresh and relevant 40 years later. […]
