Murray Head: The English Singer Behind One Night in Bangkok
Murray Head is an English singer and actor known for Superstar from Jesus Christ Superstar (1970), the 1975 album Say It Ain't So and One Night in Bangkok (1984).
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La Toya Jackson: The Jackson Family Singer Behind Heart Don’t Lie
La Toya Jackson is an American singer from the Jackson family, known for Night Time Lover, Heart Don't Lie and My Special Love, with a solo career from 1980.
Fiona Apple: The Singer-Songwriter Behind Tidal and Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple is an American singer-songwriter known for Tidal (1996), Criminal and Fetch the Bolt Cutters (2020), and a three-time Grammy winner with five albums.
Milla Jovovich: The Actress-Singer Behind The Divine Comedy
Milla Jovovich is a singer and actress whose 1994 folk-pop debut The Divine Comedy produced Gentleman Who Fell, followed by The Peopletree Sessions in 1998.
Who Wrote Winter Wonderland? Felix Bernard and Dick Smith
Winter Wonderland was written in 1934 by Felix Bernard (music) and Richard B. "Dick" Smith (lyrics). Here's the story, the first recordings, and the snowman lyric change.
Who Wrote “You Are My Sunshine”? The Credited and Disputed Writers
Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell hold the 1940 copyright on You Are My Sunshine, but Paul Rice and Oliver Hood have strong claims too. Here's the full story.
Bruce Springsteen’s “Merry Christmas Baby” (Baxter, Moore): From a 1980 Long Island Stage to a Holiday Standard
Bruce Springsteen's live Merry Christmas Baby, a Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore song first recorded in 1947, recorded in 1980 and released in 1986 and 1987.
James McMurtry’s Choctaw Bingo: A Family Reunion as a Portrait of Hard-Luck America
James McMurtry's Choctaw Bingo, from the 2002 album Saint Mary of the Woods, turns an Oklahoma family reunion into a dark, funny portrait of rural America.
Böhse Onkelz and “Bin Ich Nur Glücklich, Wenn Es Schmerzt?”: A Deep Cut from Viva los tioz
How Böhse Onkelz's Bin Ich Nur Glücklich, Wenn Es Schmerzt? fits on the 1998 album Viva los tioz, and how the song later reached boxed sets and live releases.
Bad News and “Warriors Of Ghengis Khan”: Heavy Metal Played for Laughs
How Bad News, the fictional metal band from The Comic Strip Presents, turned Warriors Of Ghengis Khan into a parody of metal bombast, on a Brian May-produced album.