‘Save the Last Dance for Me’: Does The Drifters’ 1960 chart-topper have the most tragic backstory in pop?
A tragic admission.
Soul
Seven wildly different songs that inspired Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy
Influences way beyond the ‘alt-country’ world.
The 1962 song that rendered Carole King speechless: “We were stunned into silence”
A new world beckoned.
The songs that made Frank Zappa physically sick: “They gag me”
“They’re out there sweating – and looking at their watches.”
Beth Orton – ‘The Ground Above’ album review: Out of the desert and into the garden
The ninth studio LP from one of the UK’s finest voices.
The song recorded as an afterthought that sold 11 million copies in 1974
Thrown together in ten minutes.
“A loss to the whole world”: The tragic death of Otis Redding
The soul legend and six others died in a 1967 plane crash.