Of all the people in the Beatles' inner circle, Jane Asher is perhaps the most mysterious. - Not because she's reclusive--far from it, in fact. Jane Asher has spent lots of time on stage and on screen

In case you haven't heard, we're on a little bit of a journey, meeting various women who have had an influence on multiple pop songs. In today's episode we'll be visiting Rosanna Arquette. - The inter

For the next several episodes, we're going to take a look at the women who inspired some of the Rock Era's most iconic songs. - There will be six episodes in this series; five of them will concentrate

After this many episodes, it gives me a moment of "Huh, isn't that interesting" when I start writing the post for an episode and discover that I haven't covered a song from that particular year before

This is an episode I wrote in the Southern Studio, so I may have been in a better mood than usual to write it than I ordinarily am, given the subject matter. - When Blue yster Cult first got togeth

By 1968, Glen Campbell had moved from session musician to a star in his own right. His single "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," written by Jimmy Webb, was a huge hit for him. So when Campbell decided he

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! - Today we're looking at three Christmas songs that are born from the anxieties of World War Two. Two of the songs aren't direct references to the war itself, b

...before we were so rudely interrupted... - This is a song that I'm long-overdue in covering, if only because of the backstory it has. It's simultaneously heart-warming and heart-breaking. It's a lov

How many times now have I gone into the backstory with a song and learned that the person who wrote it says something akin to, "Yeah, I knocked that one off in about fifteen minutes." - Oftentimes the

I don't often play favorites on this show; in fact there have been a couple of songs I genuinely disliked, but I covered them anyway because the story behind them was kind of interesting. And I think