R.I.P. Ecstasy: A Dozen Whodini Classics that Changed Hip-Hop Forever
(December 24, 2020). As if we needed any more reminders of the devastating year 2020 has been, Wednesday brought the news of yet another huge loss in the world of…
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Johnny Nash’s death adds to 1972’s No. 1 curse in 2020
(October 6, 2020). In just the past seven days, three artists who reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the second half of 1972 have passed away. Helen…
R.I.P. Chadwick Boseman – the epitome of black greatness, right up to his last role…
(August 29, 2020). Actor Chadwick Boseman’s last role – as a trumpeter named Levee in legendary blues artist Ma Rainey’s Georgia Jazz Band – is yet to be seen. But…
The late Betty Wright’s song catalogue was like one long bad relationship…until a man named “Dimples” came along.
(May 11, 2020). When news of soul music icon Betty Wright’s death hit the music world on Mother’s Day, the first song many of us thought of was her signature…
Little Richard – The Last Original Black Symbol of the two worlds of Rock and Roll
(May 10, 2020). We may never be able to erase the images of Little Richard – the once self-proclaimed “Queen of Rock and Roll” (dubiously to Elvis’s “King”), the creator…