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  • Attack of the One-Hit Wonders: “Rock On” – David Essex
    For American audiences, the David Essex story is rather short and fairly typical of one-hit wonders. He appeared out of nowhere, starring in a film about 1950’s rock & rollers called That’ll Be the Day.…
  • The Face That Launched Two Rock Classics
    Do you know this woman? She inspired two of rock’s all-time great story songs. Her name is Clare MacIntyre. She was working as a counsellor for the Fresh Air Fund camp during the summer of 1960. A…
  • Secret Desires of the Stars!
    Now it can be told (or actually, it was already told in the pages of 16 Magazine)!
  • Scarborough Fair: The Story Behind the Song
    Most of us know that virtually all of Simon & Garfunkel’s hits of the late 60s and early 70s were written by Paul Simon, but did you know one of their very biggest not only…
  • The Best Paul McCartney Album You Never Heard
    Think you know Paul McCartney’s solo career pretty well? We bet there’s one album of his you don’t know. That’s because it wasn’t released in America. Or England. Or Japan. Or anywhere except…Russia! The year…
  • Stop Lying About the Bee Gees
    It just keeps happening. We read an account of The Bee Gees’ career by a noted “music historian” that repeated the lie. The farther away we get from this time in music history, the more…