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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Pink Floyd
Saw a funny thread depicting some Todd In The Shadows’ Trainwreckords as “Simpsons” memes. So I tried it with some of my Career Killers.
How an iconic, generation-defining song helped break up the band that recorded it.
In honor of Genesis’s recently announced reunion tour, let’s look at the album that caused their breakup: 1997’s “Calling All Stations.”
Mark Knopfler writes his own ending to the Dire Straits story.
Van Halen made a triumphant appearance with David Lee Roth at the 1996 MTV VMAs. So then they made an album with Gary Cherone?
Tom Petty was like Sara Lee. Nobody doesn’t like him.
When done right, concept albums can be career enhancing. Or they can be disasters.
Who would have thought a concept album inspired by the Falkland Islands War would end the most successful incarnation of Pink Floyd?
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.