With a career that spans more than 60 years, Quincy Jones has one of music’s…
’70s
Last Night a Disco Compilation Saved My Life: A Chat with Bill Brewster
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Sylvester’s Mighty Realness
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Studs, Synths, and Liberation: A Brief History of SF Disco
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Revolution, With Bongos: The Indie Disco Explosion
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Echoes: Foreigner, “Juke Box Hero”
Two Brits and an American met in New York City in 1976. Nope, it’s not…
The Foreigner Strut: Mick Jones and Lou Gramm’s Sweet Science of Swagger
There’s something uniquely satisfying and majestically meta about a hard rock classic whose core subject…
David Bowie’s Rockin’ Ronson Years
A guitar hero in the term’s truest sense, British axeman Mick Ronson distinguished himself with…
The Influence of A Clockwork Orange on David Bowie
For casual David Bowie fans who spin the radio hits and not much else, A…
Echoes: The Impact of “Suffragette City”
On one level, 1972’s “Suffragette City” is pure simplicity, an amphetamine rush that proves David…