“I Want to Hold Your Hand” – The Beatles – January ’64 “Glad All Over” – Dave Clark Five – March 1964 “Needles and Pins” – The Searchers – March 1964 “Little Children” Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas – May 1964 “Bad to Me” – Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas – May 1964 […]

Screw the reviews. You know if you have to see this. And if you do… There’s a starmaking machinery behind the popular song. Image is important. You’re never truly let inside. Unless you are. Those Rick Rubin interviews were fantastic, but Paul was playing a role, a Beatle. But who is this guy really? I […]

He was a nice guy. And many of our musical heroes are not. By time the Beatles hit… Neil Sedaka was in the rearview mirror. And if you were of a certain age, and I mean young, you were clueless as to his success, which peaked in 1962, with “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.” […]

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