Oftentimes, legal battles in the music industry are strictly business and not personal.
For Irene Cara, however, it certainly felt pretty personal.
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The Beach Boys
We’ve seen several careers come to an end on (or above) the stage of the MTV Video Music Awards.
Gary Barlow was supposed to be the next George Michael. Compared to Robbie Williams, he might as well have been Andrew Ridgeley. What happened?
When is a hit album not a hit album? When it is “Adore.”
One of the few times Mike Love and not Brian Wilson helmed a Beach Boys album. Let’s just say it didn’t go well.
Once upon a time, concept albums were hip. It was a long time ago, back when the shower curtain wasn’t the only piece of vinyl in your house, and the only CDs were the ones issued by banks. If you were bored of singing the standard pop ditties about love, cars and having fun, then concept albums were the way to go. Artists like Pink Floyd, the Who and David Bowie wrote about serious issues like war, madness and consumerism and elevated themselves as artists.
How an iconic, generation-defining song helped break up the band that recorded it.
Lots of bands can’t follow up a career-defining album. “The Long Run” not only fell short of “Hotel California,” but it ended The Eagles.