Late one night after his wife and kids were asleep, Scott Aiges started strumming Tom Petty’s “Refugee” on guitar, but with a reggae lilt. A light bulb went off: Wouldn’t it be great for a band to ...
It’s Sept. 25, 1985 at the Palace Theatre in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, and the buoyant staccato guitar rhythm, breezy sax and distinctly ’80s synth-pop has the crowd footloose. UB40, which has ...
Max Romeo, the reggae legend who broke through with a pioneering rude boy classic and soundtracked the political turmoil of 1970s Jamaica, died last Friday, April 11, The Guardian reports. He was 80.
OK. This is a song you may have in your head even if you were not alive when it was a No. 1 hit on Billboard in 1972. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW") JOHNNY NASH: (Singing) I can see ...
Two acts who made their name in the 1980s are heading to Victoria for concerts this summer. Pat Benatar is booked to appear July 10 at the University of Victoria’s Farquhar Auditorium, while Ziggy ...
Welcome to the jungle. We got fun and games. The Eighties are one of the weirdest eras ever for music. It’s a decade of excess. It’s also a decade of INXS. It’s got big hair, big drums, big shoulder ...
Max Romeo, the beloved reggae singer best known for recording such widely sampled songs as “War Ina Babylon” and “Chase the Devil” died in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica on Friday (April 11) at age 80.
Singer Johnny Nash performs I Can See Clearly Now on Burt Sugarman’s The Midnight Special (1973). Pic credit: via Josegeraldofonseca/YouTube Singer and songwriter Johnny Nash, best known for his hit ...
Late one night after his wife and kids were asleep, Scott Aiges started strumming Tom Petty’s “Refugee” on guitar, but with a reggae lilt. A light bulb went off: Wouldn’t it be great for a band to ...
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