The Beatles songs

tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view”- Carole King, born in New York on February 9 1942, started her career as a Brill Building songwriter. During her career at the Brill Building, King wrote most of her songs with her husband Gerry Goffin. The duo successfully wrote more than two dozen chart hits (Wikipedia), until 1968 when the couple separated. As a result of the split King chose to move across the country to Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. According to…

Have you ever wondered who Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P (The Big Bopper) were and what there life was like before there death? Buddy Holly, born in Lubbock, Texas, and just 22 when he died, he began singing country music with high school friends before switching to rock and roll. He then was opening (performing) for various performers, including Elvis Presley. By the mid-1950s, Holly and his band had a regular radio show and toured internationally, playing hits like “Peggy Sue,” “Oh,…

John Fogerty wrote the song for the band and was the lead singer. This song stayed on the billboard charts for 15 weeks and hit #3. Fortunate Son was on the “B” side of the record with “Down By The Corner” on the A side hitting the billboard charts as well. This was a rare occasion to have both songs on a record to hit the billboard charts. In 2014 it was added to the National Recording Registry. Many of the songs released in the late 60’s were really war protest songs. When listening at…

His album The Tale of the Tape, helped kickstart his solo debut helping to build it up, spending three months on the Billboard charts. He then released the song “You Should be High Love”, along with an extremely detailed and complicated music video. Squier’s second album Don’t Say No, was to be produced by Brian May, a member of the band Queen, on request of Squier. Brian May was forced to decline Squiers…

it comes from a unique blend of the song itself and the environment surrounding the listener. One song can leave your whole body covered in goose bumps with your hair sticking straight up; this is exactly what happened to me when I heard Renegade by Styx for the first time. Styx is an American rock band from Chicago that dominated the rock scene in the mid 1970’s and early 1980’s. Renegade was released in 1979 when Styx was comprised of five members; the song made its way to #16 on the billboard…

chickens while also helping with their father’s welding business (guns and gardens). The boys were introduced to music at a young age. Both brothers took piano and guitar lessons— Scott Avett later took banjo lessons during his college years. Recording songs onto cassette tapes was a common place for the two of them as well as performing in talent shows. The brothers ended up joining a rock-and-roll band together named Nemo, which was a short lived experience because the music did not feel right…

truly expressed his musical ability to its fullest. Michael Jackson was an extremely multi-talented person he was a producer, actor, singer, songwriter, and a dancer. Michael produced a lot of his own songs such as “Bad”, “Dirty Diana”, “This is it”, “Beat it”, and many of his own and other artists songs and albums. Jackson also was a good actor, he had a role in four movies. Captain EO, The Wiz, MoonWalker, and Ghost. In 1978 Jackson had a starring role in his personal favorite film The Wiz.…

The sound of an 808 beat courses through the speakers as a fiddle can be heard strumming along with an acoustic guitar while the bass lays down a tempo. As the instrumental goes on a heavily accented voice rings on top of the song in a syncopated fashion. I immediately recognize it to be Keep it Redneck by The Lacs. This genre of music is not typically played on the radio but it contains a huge base of underground fans. It combined two genres creating a hybrid of music most would assume never to…

Don’t Have To Dance is the most recognizable track off this album. As a wonderful choice for a single, the song includes many great lyrics that make it chart worthy. It meets the pop hit standards as well as being accepted as a rock hit. Andy lets his lyrical mind expand by letting influences like Patrick Stump, Quinn Allman, and John Feldmann help tell the story. We Don’t Have To Dance is a song…

Dark wave is a remarkable music genre that started gaining popularity in the late 1970s in Germany and. This genre of music was brought to the forefront in the early 1980s and it owed its success to the new generation of artists who dared to experiment with post-punk and new wave music. Dark wave music got bigger over that decade and remains as relevant even till this day. Over the 50 years there were numerous solo Dark Wave solo artists and bands that boosted the Dark wave and brought it to the…