Photo by Gie Knaeps/Getty Images Rap rock may be common now, but that wasn't always the case, as these transformative genre-busting tracks prove.... read more
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More facts about Panama"The subject that I write about is love, is communication, is how people interact with each other," said the British singer-songwriter. She's filtered this subject through pop, rock, folk rock, and blues since her debut, "Love And Affection," first hit the UK's Top 10 in 1976.
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Harry Wayne Casey tells the stories behind KC and The Sunshine Band hits like "Get Down Tonight," "That's The Way (I Like It)," and "Give It Up."
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This song starts in Boston with a tea party and takes us to the other end of the American Revolution.
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Is "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" about Vietnam? Was John Fogerty really born on a Bayou? It's the CCR edition of Fact or Fiction.
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Way back in the mists of time, - say 1970-ish I remember reading in a music journal (Prolly "Melody Maker") about the writer discovering a film somewhere entitled "Postcards of the Hanging" and speculating on Dylan sitting in some ancient movie theatre in Hibbing or Duluth and scribbling down the title for future reference in a song or something. The implication being that Dylan nicks ideas from other art works, (What else is new?). I'm not at all concerned about that, but for decades I have tried in vain to find the film so sardonically entitled. Anybody any ideas?...