Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance 1973 – How Come
The air in the room stills a little when the song drops. It’s a late, rainy Tuesday night, and the…
Oldies Songs
“Sway” – Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Sammy Davis
The room is dark velvet and cigarette smoke, thick with the scent of expensive cologne and cheap champagne. A thousand…
a-ha – Take On Me
The genesis of a global smash hit is rarely a straight line. Often, it’s a zig-zag of false starts, critical…
AC/DC – Back In Black
I remember the first time I felt the shockwave. It wasn’t through a concert hall stack or a stadium PA,…
Guns N’ Roses – Paradise City
I remember the first time I truly heard it. It wasn’t on a radio broadcast or a music television countdown;…
AC/DC – Thunderstruck
The year is 1990. Grunge is a distant rumble on the horizon, but hair metal’s neon sheen has faded to…
The Cranberries – Zombie
The year is 1994. The airwaves are still saturated with the jangly, wistful melancholy of The Cranberries’ debut era. For…
Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
The late 1980s music landscape was fractured, glittering with neon promise and shadowed by a real, palpable dirtiness. Into this…
George Michael – Careless Whisper
The year is 1984. The landscape of pop music is a dazzling, synthetic carnival of neon tracksuits and drum machines.…
Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Want To Have Fun
The air in my rented Honda was thick with the scent of cheap diner coffee and wet asphalt. It was…