Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images John Lennon’s murder in December 1980 sent shockwaves around the world, from his most insular group of loved ones to his colleagues around the world to the…
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3 Songs From 1978 That Teens Couldn’t Stop Playing in Their First Car
Australian singer and actress Olivia Newton-John and American actor John Travolta as they appear in the Paramount film ‘Grease’, 1978. (Photo by Paramount Pictures/Fotos International/Getty Images) Remember what it was like to…
Remember When Pat Boone Covered This Early Little Richard Hit in 1956?
Singer and actor Pat Boone singing during a performance, December 27th 1956. (Photo by Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) By 1955, Little Richard had released several songs. But it’s “Tutti Frutti” that became…
4 U2 Classics That Show off Their Mastery of the Slow Stuff
UNITED KINGDOM – AUGUST 01: WEMBLEY STADIUM Photo of BONO and U2, Bono performing live onstage on PopMart tour, playing Gretsch 6119 Chet Atkins Tennessean guitar (Photo by Patrick Ford/Redferns) When they…
5 Decades Ago Today, Waylon Jennings Hit No. 1 With the Outlaw Country Album That Took on Neil Young, the Marshall Tucker Band, and Featured a Grammy-Winning Classic
Waylon Jennings On this day (August 14) in 1976, Waylon Jennings was at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart with Are You Ready for the Country. It retained the top…