Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images This month, Amy Winehouse’s groundbreaking LP Back To Black turns 20. The album transformed the sound of modern p... read more
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The voice of Waldo in Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher" video was the late Phil Hartman of Saturday Night Live Fame.
More facts about Hot For TeacherJoni Mitchell stands out for her elegant songs rich in allegory and feeling. Her biggest hit was "Help Me," but songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "The Circle Game" hold a place in the pantheon of singer/songwriter favorites. Mitchell wrote and produced most of her songs herself.
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Rickie Lee Jones on songwriting, social media, and how she's handling Trump.
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This song starts in Boston with a tea party and takes us to the other end of the American Revolution.
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The '70s gave us Muppets, disco and Van Halen, all which show up in this groovy quiz.
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Is "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" about Vietnam? Was John Fogerty really born on a Bayou? It's the CCR edition of Fact or Fiction.
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I'm surprised by the "Soylent Green" (1973) reference since I figured it would be about "The Omega Man" (1971) if anything. Too obvious? Good track, either way. It gets you thinking about the future....