“The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” was a strange hit in 1973. Riding the trend of kudzu noir that followed In the ...
As a pop-rock song from the 1970s (released in 1970, around the same time the Beatles officially broke up), it qualifies to be on the list. But I don’t really like the song very much. Neither did its ...
On Nov. 2, 1973, the Boston Celtics defeated the Golden State Warriors, 108-105, at the Boston Garden. Dave Cowens powered ...
But first, for those who have somehow escaped the song for 51 years, “Midnight Train to Georgia” is one of those songs with ...
Queen’s 1973 eponymous debut album has always been an outlier in the group’s catalog. Yes, it’s a vivid opening statement ...
The BBC famously banned it upon initial release for being too morbid, only lifting the ban in 1973 when it hit No. 3 in the U ...
But nobody made the song jump like Jones did — one reason Ol’ Blue Eyes kept working with him for the next two decades ...
After The Capital-Journal on Sept. 30 published a list of songs with Kansas connections, readers pointed out to us these ...
But that didn’t stop the man born Richard Starkey from embarking upon a creatively fruitful post-Beatles solo career, one that continues to this day. On the occasion of the 50 th anniversary of ...
Alongside Cheryl, Culture Club are the act with the joint-most Halloween number ones, with two. But a year before Do You Really Want to Hurt Me, Halloween 1981 was the time of the Karma Chameleon. The ...
As the Roxy Music frontman readies a boxed set of his solo work, he reflects on the cultural inspirations that keep him ...
On Friday, Nov. 1, a federal appeals court ruled that Ed Sheeran did not infringe the copyright to Marvin Gaye's 1973 classic ...