We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! * The elephant in the discotheque: the Bee Gees.The Bee Gees’ dominance of the charts in the disc…
The elephant in the discotheque: the Bee Gees.The Bee Gees’ dominance of the charts in the disco era was above and beyond Chic, Giorgio Moroder, even Donna Summer. Their sound track to Saturday Night Fever sold thirty million copies. They were respon…
Recalling the heyday of Prince and Madonna on the thirtieth anniversary of Purple Rain. Twenty-four-hour music television, the brainchild of a TV-spawned pop star, the Monkees’ Michael Nesmith, began broadcasting in August 1981 with the Bug…