Bryan Adams failed to find much of an audience with his self-titled debut album in 1980. But with his follow-up effort, You Want It, You Got It, he started his journey to stardom in earnest. Released ...
Tom Petty's approach to songwriting was simple: Stay humble and write what you love. "I don't think that I can sit down and pick out, 'OK, another classic,' you know, or 'Everything I write is an epic ...
In 1982, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers threw fans a curveball with “You Got Lucky.” A sonic departure from previous releases, “Lucky” found Petty and his band embracing the synth-pop sound of the ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In 1998, Eve recorded a verse on The Roots’ “You Got Me” record, but she wasn’t given credit for her contribution.
More than two decades after the song changed hip-hop and neo-soul, renewed attention on Eve’s role in “You Got Me” is reopening questions about credit, visibility, and who history remembers. When “You ...
I don’t remember which college fraternity brother turned me on to the music of John Prine twenty years ago, or which song it was that first found me. I vaguely remember a Thursday night frat party, I ...