Claire Bernish May 20, 2015 (ANTIMEDIA) A recent study served to confirm the patently obvious: song lyrics for the most popular genres of music are ridiculously obtuse — and getting worse over time. Though…
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Remembering Natalie Cole: See You in the Music
In the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2005, three years into our friendship, I enjoyed one of the most intimate and spontaneous performances ever given by Natalie Cole. It consisted of a…
Life Lessons from Toni Tennille: Plus a Recipe for Her Rice Creole Dish in Eating With the Stars
The Captain & Tennille exploded on the music scene in 1975 with a spirited, ubiquitous cover of Neil Sedaka’s “Love Will Keep Us Together,” as infectious a pop song as was ever recorded as…
The Sonny & Cher Reinvention Act of 1971, by Rick Hough
Did you ever wonder how the beatnik anti-establishment Sonny & Cher of the mid-1960s became the most popular mainstream couple in the country by the the early 1970s? Guest columnist and Sonny & Cher…
The Science of Music: Same Old Song
THE kids these days play their music too loud and it all sounds the same. Old fogies familiar with such sentiments will be happy to hear that maths bears them out. An analysis published…
A List of Songs Stephen Sondheim Wishes He Wrote Himself (At Least in Part), Volume 3
This most interesting list of songs Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim wishes he wrote himself (at least in part), originally appeared in the New York Times Magazine in 2000 and was a fascinating sidebar to…
Living Stars of Hollywood’s Golden Era, Volume 2
The feedback to the first edition of Stargayzing’s 30 Stars of Hollywood’s Golden Era Who Are Still Alive feature was so positive—as of this writing it is the blog’s most highly read piece)—that I have prepared…
A List of Songs Stephen Sondheim Wishes He Wrote Himself (At Least in Part), Volume 2
This most interesting list of songs Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim wishes he wrote himself (at least in part), originally appeared in the New York Times Magazine in 2000 and was a fascinating sidebar to…
Christopher Lee (1922 – 2015)
“I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, ‘An open door.'” The lauded English actor Christopher Lee, who died on June…
Stargayzing Songwriter’s Forum: 20 Questions with…Andy “Coati Mundi” Hernandez
Coati Mundi Hernandez, better known as “Coati Mundi,” is a show business original and music business survivor. He was born Andy Hernandez in Spanish Harlem New York City and was a founding member of not…
A List of Songs Stephen Sondheim Wishes He Wrote Himself (At Least in Part), Volume 1
This most interesting list of songs Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim wishes he wrote himself (at least in part), originally appeared in the New York Times Magazine in 2000 and was a fascinating sidebar to a…
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