Roxy Music were an English rock band formed in 1970 by Bryan Ferry — who became the band’s lead singer and main songwriter—and bass guitarist Graham Simpson. The other longtime members were Phil Manzanera (guitar), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe), and Paul Thompson (drums and percussion). Other members included Brian Eno (synthesizer and ‘treatments’), Eddie […]
Camila Cabello
Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao is a Cuban-American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Fifth Harmony formed on The X Factor USA in 2012, after finishing third in the competition they signed a joint record deal with Syco Music and Epic Records. The group released along with the […]
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer, guitarist, songwriter, and activist. Raitt’s musically inclined parents had a strong influence on her life. From a young age, she and her two brothers were encouraged to pursue music. At first, Raitt played the piano, but was intimidated by her mother’s talent. She instead began playing a […]
Bach – Cantatas
The cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, are a body of work consisting of over 200 surviving independent works, and at least several dozen that are considered lost. As far as known, Bach’s earliest cantatas date from 1707, the year he moved to Muhlhausen, although he may have begun composing them at his previous post […]
Comic Relief – Red Nose Day
Comic Relief is an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to the famine in Ethiopia. The concept of Comic Relief was to get British comedians to make the public laugh, while raising money to help people around the world and in the United […]
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. It is believed that he was born in Tutwiler, in Tallahatchie County, although some sources say his birthplace was near Clarksdale, in Coahoma County. He was the youngest of the 11 children of William Hooker, a sharecropper and Baptist preacher, and Minnie Ramsey. In […]
The Housemartins
The Housemartins were an English indie pop group formed in Hull. The band was formed in late 1983 by Paul Heaton (vocals) and Stan Cullimore (guitar), initially as a busking duo. Throughout his tenure with the band, Heaton billed himself as “P.d. Heaton”. Heaton and Cullimore recorded a demo tape with Ingo Dewsnap and Sharon […]
Lily Allen
Lily Allen is an English singer, songwriter, and author. She is the daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Allen left school when she was 15 and concentrated on improving her performing and compositional skills. In 2005, she made some of her recordings public on Myspace and the publicity resulted in airplay […]
Wicked Game
“Wicked Game” is a song by American rock musician Chris Isaak, released from his third studio album Heart Shaped World (1989). Despite being released as a single in 1989, it did not become a hit until it was featured in the 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart. Lee Chesnut, an Atlanta radio station music […]
Mother’s Day
Another in our occasional series of songs connected by a theme. Today is Mothering Sunday or Mother’s Day, and so I thought I would offer you something of an arcane collection of songs loosely connected by their references to mums, moms, and mothers. However be warned that this collection is not the usual sentimental selection, […]