by George Williams | Oct 6, 2026 | Audio, Billboard Music, Blog, Movies, Music
AC/DC is one of the most recognizable hard-rock bands on Earth: two Scottish-born brothers from Sydney, a schoolboy guitarist, a handful of unchanging riffs, and a sound that has barely blinked since 1973. They never chased trends. They just kept plugging in. From...
by George Williams | Sep 28, 2026 | Audio, Billboard Music, Blog, Movies, Music
Rory Gallagher never looked like a rock star and never tried to. Check shirt, jeans, a 1961 Stratocaster worn down to bare wood, and a night’s work that could leave a room shaking. He sold tens of millions of records, opened for Cream, shared a bill with Hendrix,...
by George Williams | Sep 25, 2026 | Audio, Blog, Lifestyle, Movies, Music
How a working-class Londoner, a comedy-label boss, and a classically trained oboist became the quiet architect of the most important catalog in popular music. If you drop a needle on almost any Beatles record, you are hearing four young men from Liverpool. You are...
by George Williams | Sep 22, 2026 | Audio, Billboard Music, Blog, Movies, Music
The collaboration between Jeff Beck and Stevie Wonder on Talking Book lasted only a handful of studio hours in 1972. It still echoes through two careers, one No. 1 single, a guitar solo Stevie calls out by name on tape, and a song that was supposed to belong to...
by George Williams | Sep 18, 2026 | Audio, Billboard Music, Blog, Movies, Music
Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines on December 31, 1948, in Boston, she grew up singing in church and listening to Mahalia Jackson. By her teens she was fronting a rock group called Crow. At 18 she left for Munich to join the German production of Hair, then stayed in Europe,...
by George Williams | Sep 15, 2026 | Audio, Billboard Music, Blog, Movies, Music
Bob Mackie died yesterday in Palm Springs. He was 87. The man who put Cher in feathers, Carol Burnett in a curtain rod, and Elton John in a sequined Dodgers uniform spent six decades proving one idea: clothes on a stage are not decoration. They are the show. Cher put...
