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The Album That Was Born from Desperation By the summer of 1984, Prince Rogers Nelson was already a star. But he was also, by his own admission, in trouble. His previous tour had been plagued by…
Read Article →I made a lot of mistakes and threw them in the garbage. There was growth and there was wisdom being accrued, even if it was painful.
Read Article →🎵 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6UXCChSUpLqxhdHCsCxGZv The Album That Terrified Its Own Record Label In the spring of 1966, Capitol Records executives sat in a Los Angeles…
Read Article →In early 1976, Fleetwood Mac walked into Record Plant Studios in Sausalito, California, carrying enough emotional wreckage to sink a lesser band. Two couples inside the group were simultaneously…
Read Article →In 1971, Marvin Gaye did something almost no artist at Motown had ever dared to do: he said no. No to the singles formula, no to Berry Gordy's polished pop machine, and no to the idea that Black…
Read Article →In the summer of 1991, a scrappy trio from Aberdeen, Washington walked into Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California with a handful of raw, explosive songs and a budget most major-label acts would…
Read Article →The Album That Changed Everything On a gray March morning in 1959, Miles Davis walked into Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City with a handful of sketches — not full compositions, just…
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