Every #1 hit song from 1975 ranked worst to best

Happy scrolling! Here is every #1 hit song from 1975, ranked from worst to best. I am among KC and the Sunshine Band’s ...

Play it, Steve!

Cropper could play perfectly tasteful blues, but he didn’t have a lot of technically impressive licks. His most famous lead, ...
The Aquarian Weekly

On the Record: Split Enz’s ‘ENZyclopedia,’ plus ‘Instrumental Hits of the Rock ’n’ Roll Era’ and Newly Restored Frank Sinatra Concerts

Split Enz scored several No. 1 albums Down Under and had some success in Canada and Europe, but never garnered much attention in the U.S. Its best showing there came in 1980, with an album called True ...

Steve Cropper Dies: Revered Stax Guitarist With Booker T. & The MG’s, Blues Brothers Band Was 84

Steve Cropper has died at 84. The iconic, influential guitarist starred with Booker T. & The MGs, played on many Stax Records ...

Remembering Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T & the M.G.'s

Steve Cropper, the Booker T. & the MG guitarist, songwriter and producer who was instrumental in the rise of R&B powerhouse ...
The Atlantic

My Father, Guitar Guru to the Rock Gods

In August 2000, when I was 2 years old, my mother put me in a maroon velvet dress and stuck foam earplugs in my ears. She carried me through the backstage corridors of the Santa Monica Civic ...
American Songwriter

The Groundbreaking Rock Instrumental Jimmy Page Called “The Essence of Cool”

From the late 1950s to the late 1970s, rock ‘n’ rollers were taking the formula for what they already knew a six-string electric could do and pushing the boundaries one notch further. Musicians were ...