Foreigner arrive fully-formed and formidable on debut album

Foreigner’s first album was launched at an opportune time. While punk rock was big news in 1977, the year’s biggest-selling ...
American Songwriter

The Agonizing Lyric That May Have Hit Too Close to Home for Tom Petty

Tom Petty unloaded all his relationship angst into "Echo". Perhaps too much so, because he didn't want to revisit the song.

“John said we were the best stuff he'd heard since the Beatles”: Davey Johnstone on Elton John’s collab with John Lennon

How a visit from John Lennon during the sessions for Elton John’s 1975 masterpiece Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt ...
American Songwriter

3 Addictive Rock Hooks From 1974 You Won’t Be Able To Get Out of Your Head

These addictive rock hooks from songs released in 1974 really pulled in listeners, and they're still making fans today.

Kate Hudson on the Film She’d Make With Goldie Hawn and Breaking Out of Her Rom-Com Box in ‘Song Sung Blue’: ‘I Didn’t Want to Get Boxed In’

For Hudson, whose breakout in “Almost Famous” (2000) earned her an Oscar nomination at 21, “Song Sung Blue” represents a kind of creative homecoming. It breaks free of the romantic-comedy image that ...