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Acquiring his alias from a mention of article author Italo Calvino’s story Luna e GNAC, where the look at from a family’s apartment window displays the final four letters of the Cognac billboard, Manchester, England’s Tag Tranmer began documenting as Gnac in the mid-’90s. Affected by Ennio Morricone as well …

Among the many jazzmen who all started out using hard bop but went electric powered through the fusion period, Joe Test was, in the later ’50s, a founding person in the Jazz Crusaders along with trombonist Wayne Henderson, tenor saxman Wilton Felder, and drummer Stix Hooper. The Crusaders’ debts to …

The defining moment of Glenn Gould’s career came in 1964 when, at age 31, he withdrew from all public performance. The move was seen by viewers and critics as willful and bewildering, and was viewed as proof that despite his demonstrably supreme artistry he was, in the argot of the …

Explained by Gold Star Documenting Studio co-owner Stan Ross as “probably the most well-known unfamiliar available,” producer, arranger, and composer Don Ralke was a fixture from the Hollywood documenting studio for over four decades, overseeing a sprawling body system of work increasing from pop strikes to golden-throat celebrity details to …

“The Sweetheart from the Fighting Fronts,” singer Frances Langford was a global Battle II heartthrob beloved by soldiers on her behalf performances within Bob Hope’s USO travels. Blessed Frances Newbern in Lakeland, FL, on Apr 4, 1914, she originally aspired to a profession performing opera, but a neck operation permanently …

L.A. vocalist/songwriter Greg Copeland released his 1st recording for Geffen Information in the first ’80s; the Jackson Browne-produced Revenge SHOULD COME. Copeland also penned the music “Chocolate” for Browne’s Lives in the total amount LP, aswell as the Central America protest regular “Un Salvador” (Peter, Paul & Mary; Joan Baez). …

Of the numerous British Invasion acts that stormed the charts in the wake from the Beatles, Chad & Jeremy possessed a subtlety and sophistication unmatched amongst their contemporaries, essentially creating the template for the type of lush, private folk-pop embraced by followers from Nick Drake to Belle & Sebastian. Chad …

Quickly Japan’s most talented and knowledgeable techno DJ, Fumiya Tanaka brought the sound of minimal, intense techno to Japan through the early ’90s, and introduced a large number of club-goers to the very best Detroit and German producers via his club nights about Osaka and Tokyo. Delivered in Kyoto, Tanaka …

Although she’s best-known as the quite, perky teenager who earned the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with her hit “Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son,” French pop singer France Gall has already established a a lot longer and even more varied career than that, having released solid records nearly nonstop because …

Emerson, Lake & Palmer were progressive rock’s initial supergroup. Greeted from the rock and roll press and the general public as something comparable to conquering heroes, they been successful in broadening the viewers for intensifying rock and roll from thousands into tens of an incredible number of listeners, creating a …