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Always the Runner-Up: The Strange, Unlucky Fate of ‘If This World Were Mine’ and ‘Luther’

February 15, 2025 DJ Rob

(February 15, 2025). If this world were mine… well, actually it kinda was — and wasn’t. That’s the self-eating irony baked into the fate of “If This World Were Mine,”…

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Usher’s R&B Mt. Rushmore: Do You Agree with His Choices? Who Makes Your Monument?

November 8, 2023 DJ Rob

Usher has placed himself and several others on the Mt. Rushmore of R&B in a recent interview. Deserved? Who would be your picks?

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Ed Sheeran narrowly dodged a bullet with ‘Thinking Out Loud’ and a ‘classically simple chord change’ used in Marvin Gaye’s classic

May 6, 2023 DJ Rob

(May 6, 2023). Theft or Influence? On Thursday, May 4, 2023, a Manhattan jury rendered its verdict in the highly publicized case of Ed Sheeran vs. Ed Townsend, a co-writer…

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Here, My Dear – 3 old guys ponder Marvin Gaye’s bitter alimony album; is it REALLY a classic?

May 6, 2020 DJ Rob

(May 7, 2020). Motown legend Marvin Gaye originally intended to create a crap album when he recorded the 12 songs that would eventually form Here, My Dear, a collection of…

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Berry Gordy turns 90! Here are Motown’s Dozen Greatest Moments under his leadership…

November 27, 2019 DJ Rob

(November 27, 2019). It all started with $800 and a dream. With a loan from his family, Berry Gordy launched his first label, Tamla Records, in January 1959. Tamla would…

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Usher’s R&B Mt. Rushmore: Do You Agree with His Choices? Who Makes Your Monument?

Ed Sheeran narrowly dodged a bullet with ‘Thinking Out Loud’ and a ‘classically simple chord change’ used in Marvin Gaye’s classic

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