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Queen Achieves Top Honors at 2020 BMI Awards London

Sony/ATV Music Publishing paid tribute to the iconic rock band Queen and its significant achievements in the Million-Air awards category at the 2020 BMI London Awards, which were announced on October 5. The Million-Air awards recognize iconic songs that have reached a million or more broadcast performances by UK and European songwriters and publishers. Queen had an impressive three songs honored in this year's Million-Air awards. With 7 million total […]

todayOctober 26, 2020

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Bat Out of Hell turns 43

On this day, 34 years ago, "Bat Out of Hell", written by Jim Steinman, for the 1977 album Bat Out of Hell and performed by Meat Loaf, was released. The record was released as a single in 1979, and again in 1993. Like most songs on the album, the song was written about Peter Pan and the Neverland story. Steinman had intended for the song to appear on "a rock […]

todayOctober 21, 2020

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Cornell’s Guns N Roses Cover Lives Again on Rock Charts

The late rockstar Chris Cornell was voted "Rock's Greatest Singer" by readers of Guitar World, and ranked No. 4 on the list of "Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists" by Hit Parader, No. 9 on the list of "Best Lead Singers of All Time" by Rolling Stone, and No. 12 on MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music". It's no surprise that Cornell's iconic vocals live on beyond his tragic death […]

todayOctober 20, 2020

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Learn the Lyrics to Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond

"Sweet Caroline" is a song written and performed by American singer Neil Diamond and released in May 1969 as a single with the title "Sweet Caroline". It was arranged by Charles Calello, and recorded at American Sound Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. "Sweet Caroline Good times never seemed so good I've been inclined To believe they never would But now I" In a 2007 interview, Diamond stated the inspiration for his […]

todayOctober 19, 2020

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One Hit Wonders: Tainted Love

Tainted Love" is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of American group the Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964. It attained worldwide fame after being covered and reworked by British synth-pop duo Soft Cell in 1981 and has since been covered by numerous groups and artists. Buoyed by the then-dominant synth-pop new wave sound of the time and a memorable performance on the BBC's […]

todayOctober 16, 2020

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ABBA “Happy New Year” / “Felicidad” Out 12/4

This December, Polar Music/UMe celebrate "Happy New Year," a stand-out cut from ABBA's Super Trouper album that soundtracked the festive season and far beyond 40 years ago. In different times, "Happy New Year" – sung by Agnetha Fältskog with back-ups from Anni-Frid Lyngstad – would have been released as a worldwide single, but ABBA, conscious of never short-changing their fans, had already released two singles from Super Trouper, with a […]

todayOctober 15, 2020

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Kiss’ Rock and Roll All Nite turns 45

On this day, 45 years ago "Rock and Roll All Nite" by Kiss, was originally released on their 1975 album Dressed to Kill. It was released as the A-side of their fifth single, with the album track "Getaway". The studio version of the song peaked at No. 69 on the Billboard singles chart, besting the band's previous charting single, "Kissin' Time". A subsequent live version, released as a single in […]

todayOctober 14, 2020

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One Hit Wonders: “We’re Not Gonna Take It” by Twisted Sister

"We're Not Gonna Take It" is a song by the American band Twisted Sister from their album Stay Hungry. It was first released as a single (with "You Can't Stop Rock & Roll" as the B-side) on April 27, 1984. The Stay Hungry album was released two weeks later, on May 10, 1984. The single reached No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, making it Twisted Sister's only […]

todayOctober 12, 2020

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Pearl Jam Guitarist Mike McCready Featured on Teen’s Covid-inspired Song

Jack West, the 15-year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist from Rochester, N.Y., has already been adopted by Pearl Jam fans for the time he performed on-stage in Nashville at an Eddie Vedder solo show just a few short years ago before 30,000 people. His new single, "Missing Out," which Jack wrote last January, but then adjusted its apocalyptic tone to the pandemic which followed, features a couple of searing guitar solos from none other […]

todayOctober 9, 2020

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