Steve Miller Band, The Joker, and the "pompatus" of love
It’s the song that put the word “pompatus” into our collective consciousness, a made-up word that was actually a mishearing of ANOTHER made up word. But it sounds great in “The Joker,” proving once ag...
28 Aug 202410min
The secret sauce in ZZ Top's biggest hit album
It took original thinking to make one of the best-selling albums of an entire decade, and that’s just what ZZ Top did, although they had some help with coming up with the sound. Completely bypassing t...
7 Aug 202412min
How “Closer To The Heart” by Rush started with a friendship
It’s been said “Closer To The Heart” by Rush is Canada’s “Stairway To Heaven,” in ways that go beyond the technical, and it struck a chord worldwide to audiences in a way that Rush’s songs hadn’t befo...
17 Jul 20248min
Bon Jovi's story that started in "Livin' On A Prayer"
It was a song that Jon Bon Jovi had to admit that he was wrong about. It took serious convincing for him to agree to put what became Bon Jovi’s signature song on their third album, a make or break alb...
26 Jun 202413min
The emotional ride of The Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses”
It may be the most delicate song in the entire Rolling Stones catalog, with Mick Jagger delivering every single line of “Wild Horses” with an impassioned weight. And there’s good reason for that. By t...
5 Jun 202411min
Who was Heart's "Magic Man?"
Workplace romances can be challenging…especially when your job is being part of a rock band. That was certainly the case with the band Heart. In fact, their first Top 10 hit in the US was written abou...
15 Mai 20249min
The year John Mellencamp took control
By 1983, John Mellencamp had finally gotten the upper hand on his career. After the success of his breakthrough album, 1982’s American Fool, he had all the cards in his deck to change the game when it...
24 Apr 20249min
The timeless appeal of Pink Floyd’s “Time”
The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd stands alone in many ways. By dealing with the uncomfortable concepts of life, death, greed, and mental illness, this body of work chimes with the human experie...
3 Apr 202413min
