KC and the Sunshine Band, racism, instrumental songs, forgettable melodrama, good to great FM radio fodder, and a Bowie ...
Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...
The 1970s was a tumultuous time, full of upheaval on many fronts, from the end of the Vietnam War to the dawn of personal computers. It makes sense that its music had a similar helter-skelter feel.
“Rhinestone Cowboy” by Glen Campbell was released in May 1975 and quickly became one of the most successful country and symphonic pop songs of the year. It was a crossover hit that made it all the way ...
Fifty years ago, Glen Campbell was riding high with his hit song “Rhinestone Cowboy.” The song was at No. 2, right under David Bowie’s “Fame” on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, in mid-September 1975, ...
The battle for the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart has raged on for decades. Some songs have made it to that top spot for weeks on end. Others only got a taste of that No. 1 goodness for a ...