He's been eligible since 2002 for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honor, but it hasn't happened (yet?). His solo heyday (1980-1990) featured five straight studio albums that earned at least gold status,...
The media used to call him the Black Elvis Presley. he lead singer in the group Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes was ordained as a minister at the age of ten. In 1982 He was paralyzed from the waist...
Marie was a rap pioneer and she was one of the first musical artists to incorporate rhyme into an R & B song. In 1981, she rapped on her single “Square Biz” off the album “It Must...
Chubby Checker is the only artist who has got nine double sided hits on his name. He worked in a butcher’s shop when he was a child. He had also done works like selling ice and shining shoes as a...
Domino dropped out of school at 14 and did odd jobs including hauling ice by day while singing at local clubs at night. By 1949, he was earning $3 a week. Alter he went on to outsell every rock ’n’...
There song “The great pretender” describes a man who deals with his heartbreak by denying it. The Platters wrote the lyrics in the washroom of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Doo Wop groups...
They took their name because they combined electric rock instruments with orchestral instruments. "Light Orchestras" were small orchestras popular in England in the '60s. At the time, an ad for their album...