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  • Shining star

    Now Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, is dead. How can we mourn so many pop legends in so short a time?! Maurice White is one of only three drummers I can think of who founded a band that actually counts for something: Maurice White, Earth, Wind & Fire…

  • 5 reasons this blog will change your life (and 10 reasons why it won’t)

    This blog is waking up. This blog is stirring. This blog just said, “Five more minutes.” This blog is snoring. This blog just threw the alarm across the room. This blog is staggering around like the Men Without Hats “Safety Dance” video, which has 18 million hits and 14,000 comments…

  • The stars look very different today

    David Bowie is dead. Why didn’t the world stand still? In 1976, I bought a Bowie album called Station to Station. It doesn’t matter what kind of music Bowie made on Station to Station or how it fits into his life’s work or that it marked the end of this…

  • Chapter 199: In which I ravel some loose ends

    When I was growing up in the 1960s and ’70s (it took me awhile to grow up), I knew which music belonged to me and which music belonged to Old People. My music was from The Beatles and everyone who followed in their wake. It was loud, it crackled with…

  • Comets caught in the gravitational grip of Donna Summer

    The women I’m discussing this evening all came from jazz, soul, R&B, and gospel to try their luck in disco. As singers, they were well above average. Gloria Gaynor, Thelma Houston, and Patti LaBelle had the biggest voices; Candi Staton and Loleatta Holloway were the most subtle. You could’ve hired…