Spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/3UmWK0V 1 At least today, in their grief, everybody can listen to Christine McVie’s music. It didn’t used to be this way. First and foremost because the record stores immediately ran out of inventory, and it would take weeks for new records to be pressed and shipped. But that makes the point that […]

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GPACt4 YouTube: https://bit.ly/3ifqm2O 1 If you want to know what it was like to be alive in 1965, you must listen to the new Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ album “Live at the Fillmore 1997.” Now let me state right up front this 72 track package only embellishes Tom and the band’s image. This […]

Thank you for shining a light on the great Paul Davis. My mother Ilene Berns signed Paul to my father’s Bang Records label shortly after his death in 1967, presiding over a decade of hits that included “Ride ‘Em Cowboy,” “Sweet Life” and “I Go Crazy,” which once held the record for the longest chart […]

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3XtsPXv YouTube: https://bit.ly/3F1uo7U 1 I’m trying to remember where I heard “’65 Love Affair.” I mean it was a pop hit, and I never listened to AM radio. And then I remembered, back in the early eighties, when MTV broke, there was a new phenomenon, Top Forty on FM radio. Actually, it was a […]