In 1981, Tina Turner stood at one of the most precarious points of her career—not at the beginning, and not at the end, but in a limbo the music industry…
In August 1972, somewhere between the opening chords and the final applause at a Los Angeles concert, Neil Diamond experienced a quiet but decisive realization: the audience in front of…
In April 1976, Kingston stood on edge. Political violence was escalating, fear was palpable, and Bob Marley had just survived an assassination attempt that nearly killed him. Bullets had torn…
In 1972, at the height of his sudden stardom, David Cassidy made a rare and revealing admission in Los Angeles: fame had arrived faster than he could emotionally process. While…
In 1997, a public dispute in Edinburgh exposed a long-simmering conflict at the heart of the Bay City Rollers’ legacy: who, if anyone, had the right to use the band’s…
By the 2000s, Neil Diamond’s legacy had become oddly compressed. For casual listeners, his career increasingly seemed to orbit around a single song—his biggest hit—played relentlessly at sporting events, weddings,…
In the early 1970s, while most major-label artists were fighting simply to keep a song or two intact, Neil Diamond quietly secured one of the most unusual record deals of…
In a 1986 interview with Rolling Stone, Tina Turner shattered one of pop culture’s most persistent illusions: that success heals everything. At the height of her global comeback—when charts, sold-out…
Tina Turner’s death on May 24, 2023, in Zurich marked the quiet end of a life defined not only by extraordinary resilience and global acclaim, but also by decades of…
On November 12, 2017, the audience at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles believed they were witnessing another triumphant stop on Neil Diamond’s world tour. Few realized they were watching…