From the Prince Estate: The Artists ‘Formerly’ Known as Morris Day & The Time…?
(March 4, 2022). According to a social media post from Morris Day, the capitalist bug has bitten the Prince estate once again. And this time it could affect the pockets…
Chart don’t lie: The year every Jackson had a Hot 100 hit, except one…(with an asterisk, of course)
(February 10, 2022). Okay, maybe the word “hit” in the article’s title is being used loosely here, but there was a year during the 1980s when all of the Jackson…
Just when you thought it would hit No. 1…the story of the most frustrating No. 2 peaks of the 1970s (“YMCA,” “I’m Not In Love,” What’s Going On,” others)
(February 5, 2022). Just when you thought it would hit No. 1…suddenly, it didn’t. This is the story of those frustrating near-misses, those runners-up on the premier Billboard singles chart—the…
The Janet Jackson documentary… what the critics are getting wrong
(January 31, 2022). I’ve read several reviews of the Janet Jackson documentary that aired simultaneously on Lifetime and A&E over the past weekend. None of them were flattering. For the…
Sole Survivors. Temptations, Bee Gees, Supremes and 14 other notable musical groups with one surviving original member.
(January 30, 2022). It’s only a partial coincidence that the blog’s 666th article is a somewhat morbid but uplifting one. Last week, when DJROBBLOG celebrated its seventh anniversary, I noted…