News

If you’ll allow us to spin you back down the years, then we’ll tell you the tale of Jethro Tull’s THICK AS A BRICK, which was released in the U.S. 45 years ago today. Following the success of 1971’s AQUALUNG...

40 years ago today, Charles Mingus began recording his classic album THREE OR FOUR SHADES OF BLUES. Recorded initially at Atlantic Studios in New York City and then later at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, THREE OR FOUR SHADES...

On this day 53 years ago, Cilla Black was in the final week of her three-week run at the top of the UK Singles chart with her version of the Burt Bacharach / Hal David single, providing her with the...

54 years ago this month, Gerry and the Pacemakers released their debut single, a track which was famously recorded and then set aside by The Beatles. One can’t help but suspect that Gerry Marsden continued to thank his fellow Liverpudlians...

58 years ago today, The Drifters recorded their hit single “There Goes My Baby,” which seems like as good an excuse to spotlight the song in Single Stories as any, wouldn’t you say? “There Goes My Baby” is particularly notable...

25 years ago today, Little Texas released their debut album, an LP which established the band as a force to be reckoned with on the country charts. Founded in 1988 in – you guessed it – Texas, the beginnings of...

55 years ago this month, Bobby Darin released his full-length tribute to Ray Charles, one which featured his take on 11 tracks originally recorded by Brother Ray. Darin, a well-known interpreter of other artists’ material, was a fan of Charles’s...

There were some more C’s in that soup…so the Doctor is diving back in! ABOUT DR. RHINO A young Dr. Rhino first encountered the magic of song whilst being born in the front seat of a Lincoln Continental. As the...

26 years ago today, Oliver Stone’s cinematic depiction of the formation, success, and dissolution of The Doors arrived on the big screen. With a filmography that included the Academy Award-winning films Platoon, Wall Street, and Born on the Fourth of...