Jimmy Hughes reportedly cut his silky expressive vocals for 1964 R&B ballad “Steal Away” in just one take. The song became a ...
Memphis has been many things: the birthplace of the blues, ground zero for the revolution of rock 'n' roll, and the city that ...
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Don Schlitz, who has died of an aneurysm aged 73, was a songwriter who had a huge global hit with Kenny Rogers’s version of The Gambler, one of the biggest sellers in country music history; in the UK ...
On May 16, 2000, Kenny Rogers topped the country charts for the first time in more than a decade with "Buy Me a Rose".
"The Gambler" nearly slipped away before Kenny Rogers turned it into one of the most iconic songs in country music history.
The best songs are the ones that leave a lasting impact for years to come. In the case of "My Girl" by The Temptations, the Motown classic remains a musical fixture more than 60 years after it debuted ...
It has been a heartbreaking year for country music fans with nearly 20 stars dying already. And April was the toughest month ...
Duran Duran have shared a new song, “Free to Love,” which features frequent collaborator Nile Rodgers. The band will perform the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on April 29. Watch the song’s video below.
Though romance was, of course, a category Rogers dabbled in plenty across his memorable catalog, no song reached the supreme ...
The spirit of singer-songwriter and beloved Florida man Jimmy Buffett will live on in Sarasota County through a new ...
Duran Duran and Chic legend Nile Rodgers go way, way back together. When they first started, Duran Duran described their own sound as Chic meets the Sex Pistols, and they scored their first #1 hit in ...