Is this possible in 2021? Adele’s new ‘30’ album could go gold on its vinyl sales alone…?
(November 6, 2021). This is not the early 1980s, when vinyl record sales alone could still power a blockbuster album. It’s also not 2015, the year Adele’s last album 25…
Adelgorithm: Adele’s pattern suggests what her next album (after ‘30’) will be called and when it will come out; brace yourselves!
(October 31, 2021). As we approach the month of Adele, math-minded sleuths may have picked up on a pattern developing with the singer’s age-titled albums—and their release years—to predict what…
Self-cancellation? Two recent deaths are the real reason the Rolling Stones (finally) found their ‘filter’…and it’s no more ‘Brown Sugar’ for now
(October 30, 2021). The Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar” is a good ol’ bluesy rock jam featuring one of the most iconic guitar riffs of all time. As the band’s immense…
Carole King, George Harrison and other respected musicians played on this offensively bad tune in 1973…and it was a hit!
(October 28, 2021). As I write this, I realize that what passed as acceptable in comedy during the 1970s would not necessarily fly in today’s more politically correct and woke…
As an “old man,” Elton John’s a young man…and ‘The Lockdown Sessions’ is his best album since, well, he really WAS a young man
(October 23, 2021). Wouldn’t it be nice if Elton John’s new album The Lockdown Sessions enters the Billboard 200 chart at No. 1 next week? After all, he was the…