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In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.
She was pop’s biggest party girl, but since accusing her producer of abuse she’s been in limbo, wary of speaking out. Now, on the aptly named Gag Order, she’s finding catharsis. ‘I have all the emotions,’ she says
MIAMI — In September, a debate over whether the Miami-Dade School Board should recognize October as LGBTQ history month again left board members facing a divided roomful of constituents.
Scritti Politti | Cupid & Psyche 85 / 05 July 2021 49 Views Though few could have predicted John Peel favourites Scritti Politti, led by the polymathic singer/songwriter Green Gartside, becoming one of the slickest synth-pop outfits of the 80s, the group’s history has been defined by perpetual reinvention. They began as a Marxist-leaning post-punk outfit whose debut single, 1978’s self-released Skank Bloc Bologna, was a slice of angular agitpop, and by the time of their inaugural LP, 1981’s Songs To Remember, they were serving up honeyed, soulful pop that grazed the low...
Rolling Stone Menu Maxwell Wasn’t Sure He Wanted to Be a Star. ‘Urban Hang Suite’ Left Him No Choice Twenty-five years after his debut, the singer-songwriter-producer and key collaborators look back on an album that proved R&B tradition could still thrive in a hip-hop world By Elias Leight's Most Recent Stories Saad Amer In the early 1990s, Stuart Matthewman, the writer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his work in Sade, heard a remarkable demo: a ballad that stretched out over nearly seven minutes, making room for daredevil falsetto and a bass line as ele...