The music industry pressures of stardom and life on the road make it hard for marriages and relationships to last. […]
Songs often sound similar. There’s a limited number of notes and chords, and a huge number of hit songs have […]
Tina Turner was a very big star twice in the same lifetime. First time round, she was the real talent […]
Here in Australia, most of the music that gets on to the radio comes from the English speaking world, and […]
The Kinks are one of the great British bands, and they’re going to celebrate their 60th anniversary in a big […]
Broderick Smith arrived in Australia from his native England in 1959, settling in Melbourne, one of the country’s rock and […]
Harry Belafonte grew up in New York, where he was hit by a car as a child. His mother, Melvine, […]
David Bowie’s best selling album, Let’s Dance, is 40 years old this month. It was, and is, a great album, […]
There was a time when the cow bell took on a magical allure in the rock music business. It was […]
Keith Moon was one of rock’s greatest drummers, and a major part of the success The Who enjoyed as a […]
1973 was the year I switched from buying singles to albums. The wait between visits to the record shop was […]
The song Can’t Get You Out of My Head was a global hit for Kylie Minogue in 2001, and never […]
Southern rock swept the USA in the 1970s, eventually finding its way to Australian audiences. Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of […]
Pop songs are a product of the times in which they were created. The people who write and perform them […]
Guitars are made so that the lowest of the six strings is at the top, and the highest string is […]
Songs have component parts, a structure. There’s a verse, and a chorus. More verse and chorus, maybe an instrumental solo. […]