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Audio Autopsy, 2013: One Direction No One Expected: The Blondie & Undertones Medley For Charity
To the hipper-than-thou, kindly adjust your "cool quotient" to allow for the following several moments where a billion-selling teen-pop group is…
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Audio Autopsy, 1967:🎵Victor Garber & The Sugar Shoppe: Actor, 75, Had a '60s Folk-Pop Start🎶
He's excelled on the stage, and on screens big and small. But, before all that, he was a '60s solo folk singer, and was in a folk group who broke into…
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Audio Autopsy, 1981👟Sneaker: 2 Albums, 1 Hit + Steely Dan Guitarist, Jeff Baxter, Producing
They took their name from a Steely Dan song, covered one of their songs, and even had their guitarist produce their only two albums! Pretzel logic that…
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Audio Autopsy: Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown Power Classic Rock Into New Millennium
Anachronism: "A chronological inconsistency, or the act of placing something in the wrong time period." Rarely does a rock act have their pic accompany…
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Christopher Bradley
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Audio Autopsy: Michael Zager Boogies From Late '60s Rock to '70s Disco🕺"Let's All Chant"💃
The rare career move across decades from a ten-piece rock band with a female lead singer to a hit-making career producing disco records makes this New…
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PeDupre - The Twelve Inch
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Audio Autopsy, 1988🎸Phil Keaggy and Sunday's Child: The Beatles Influenced Album We Didn't See Coming
Phil Keaggy & band wanted to re-create the sound of albums from the mid-'60s à la The Beatles, using only vintage guitars played through vintage amps…
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Audio Autopsy, 1968: The Flirtations, "Nothing But a Heartache"💔Songwriters Wayne Bickerton & Tony Waddington
They wrote one song that floundered, so they re-purposed one of its hooks, and re-cast their musical net into the high Cs (and B-sharps) & came up with…
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Audio Autopsy, 1979: The Creative Birth of Hit-Songwriter, Desmond Child, on Capitol Records
🌈Livin' on a Flair: The "male Diane Warren" has given hard rock a desperately-needed melodic sheen, which has resulted in re-shaped careers, while…
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Audio Autopsy, 1979: What Grounded Northern Ireland's Starjets (Epic/CBS Records)?
Marketed in 1979 as another in a glut of punkers, Northern Ireland's Starjets are really the biggest secret in Power Pop. And, they're still pluggin…
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🐰Audio Autopsy, 1970: Before Dr. Demento, He Was Warner Bros. Records PR Writer, Barry Hansen
Years before "Weird Al" sent him a life-changing cassette, Dr. Demento interned at Burbank's Label of The Bunny.
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Audio Autopsy, 1972: Byzantium Debut LP, Warner Bros, US: Career Start for Chaz Jankel, Queen Producer Roy Thomas Baker, a Genesis Producer…
2 major labels (Warner Bros. in the States, A&M in EU) couldn't help propel this long-forgotten, influential album into the pop culture zeitgeist, but…
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Audio Autopsy, 1991: "Perspex Island"-The Robyn Hitchcock Interview by Amy Hughes
The 38-year-old Londoner freely dishes on songwriting, label drama, and everyone's expectations! Now 70, you'll also get a taste of what this…
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Amy McGrath
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