All posts by Chris Gerard
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Flashback: Top 10 Singles This Week 30 Years Ago – Jan. 1984
10. “Running With the Night” – Lionel Richie At #10 thirty years ago this week, on the Billboard Hot 100 issued on January 14, 1984,...
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Flashback: 5 classic albums released 30 years ago this month – January 1984
Van Halen – “1984” With the lead-off smash “Jump” and its instantly recognizable synthesizer riff (that so outraged many of their older fans) soaring to...
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Happy Birthday David Bowie! – Ranking his Albums worst to first
On January 8, 2014 rock legend David Bowie turns 67. A year ago on this date he shocked his fans and the music industry by...
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A Wintry Mix
As the temperatures plummet, snow falls around the Washington D.C. area and we ease into the heart of winter, it’s time to think about some...
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Flashback: Ten 80s Classics that missed the Top 40
As we’ve seen over the years, chart position isn’t everything. There are songs that scale the upper reaches of the pop charts that don’t make...
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Giorgio Moroder: 10 of his classic productions
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of Giorgio Moroder to pop and dance music in the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s and beyond. His...
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Annie Lennox turns 59 – – we explore 10 of her best hidden gems
Annie Lennox, with her partner Dave Stewart in Eurythmics and The Tourists, and as a solo artist, has enjoyed tremendous success over the past 30+...
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The Best and Worst Singles of 2013
2013 was a great year for music, if you knew where to look for it. Sure, the pop charts were generally loaded with a lot...
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BeyoncΓ© stuns fans with superb new album released today
BeyoncΓ© surprised fans early this morning by releasing an entirely new studio album available exclusively via iTunes with no advance warning or promotion. Titled BeyoncΓ©Β...
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Classic album revisited: Culture Club’s “Colour By Numbers”
It couldn’t have been lost on Boy George, now 52, that as his latest solo album “This Is What I Do” hit stores this past...
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Remembering John Lennon 33 years after his death
John Lennon was shot down on a New York City sidewalk 33 years ago today, December 8, 1980, and the world lost one of the...
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The 30 Best Albums of 2013
As the year rapidly winds to a close, it’s time to look back at the best music that 2013 had to offer. This was not...
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World AIDS Day 2013 via music
The power of music is its universal ability to express feelings and emotions in a way that touches us all on any possible subject imaginable....
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Flashback: Ten 80s Classics you might not have known were covers
Just like in any decade, there were no shortage of hit cover versions in the ’80s. Most of them were obvious – like Billy Idol’s...
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Neil Young turns 68: His Best of the last 25 Years
Everybody is aware that Neil Young is one of the greatest artists in rock history. Most listeners and casual fans are mostly familiar with his...
