The shift from the single to the album in the 1950s and 1960s represented a shift from music for dancing to music for listening. As a res...

George Jones was a great singer for two reasons: he had a great voice, and he knew how to dramatize an idea. But because genre distinction...

It has been four years since my last list of pop aphorisms. I thought it was high time for another. 1. The discovery of the teen idol wa...

The forthcoming Criterion Collection Blu-ray/DVD release of Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate (1980/81) has, predictably, prompted a fair a...

John and Yoko with Allen Klein in happier times, probably in the early 1970s Guest blogger Eric Roberts reports: One primary aim of th...

Tuesday night's History Detectives program focused exclusively on rock music collectables, the dramatic intrigue hinging on deter...

Having established in our last entry that for nearly four decades John Lennon's white 1965 Phantom V Rolls-Royce, chassis No. 5VD63, h...

“We can confirm that the White Rolls Royce is owned by the Klein family and is undergoing a full restoration. ” --From an email from...

Photo credit: http://kenwoodlennon.blogspot.com Guest blogger Eric Roberts provides a year-end update on the search for John Lennon's...

The "ever popular tortured artist effect" is one of the foundational myths of modern celebrity journalism. Presumably, shiny, ...

Larry "Wild Man" Fischer, who died at age 66 of a heart ailment a little over a week ago, on Thursday, June 16, was an eccentric f...

According to the OED, the word anthem is a corruption of the Old English word antefn , derived from the Greek word antiphon , meaning “A co...