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 24, 2026 | Billboard Music, Blog, Movies, Music
Chrissie Hynde left Akron, Ohio, because the Midwest could not hold her. Born Christine Ellen Hynde on September 7, 1951, she grew up on 1960s radio, Kinks records, and the idea that real life happened on a stage somewhere else. After a stretch at Kent State’s art...
by George Williams | Sep 23, 2026 | Billboard Music, Blog, Movies, Music
At 52 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village, behind a discreet doorway that most tourists walk right past, sits one of the most important rooms in American popular music. Electric Lady Studios was Jimi Hendrix’s last great idea: a place he could work without watching...
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,...
