In the weeks leading up to the 1981 Billboard awards, industry insiders spoke in unusually confident tones about Neil Diamond’s chances of taking home one of the night’s major honors.…
When Shania Twain’s 1997 single first reached the programming office of one of the largest country radio stations in the United States, the reaction was immediate and unusually blunt. The…
The near-collaboration between Neil Diamond and Carole King in 1970 didn’t dissolve in a dramatic argument, creative clash, or contract dispute. It slipped away quietly, undone by timing, travel schedules,…
The most talked-about Tina Turner performance of 1992 is the one no camera ever captured and no official record acknowledges. It took place in a private Zurich hall normally reserved…
The story of Tina Turner’s rejected 1988 dance remix begins in a London studio tucked behind an unmarked door, where two young producers were experimenting with a hybrid sound that…
The story of Neil Diamond’s no-audience concert in 1984 has circulated among crew members for decades, partly because it happened unexpectedly and partly because it revealed a side of him…
The story of the half-finished 1979 Bob Marley recording begins not with a dramatic studio blowup, but with a quiet evening session at a small Kingston workspace, where only a…
In the spring of 1976, producers of a high-profile weekly television show made a decision that would ignite one of the loudest viewer backlashes of the year: David Cassidy, who…
In early 1978, a small but credible report circulated quietly through European entertainment columns, suggesting that the Bay City Rollers had been considered for a special performance at the opening…
In the spring of 1971, Neil Diamond found himself sitting in a small production office along Sunset Boulevard, weighing a decision that could have pulled him out of the recording…