Your High School Garage Band Didn't Fail—It's Just on a 58-Year Delay
When a music promoter bought a mystery $4 record at a thrift store, he had no idea he was about to give a 1960s teen rock band their ultimate second act.
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Someone Covered ‘Brass Monkey’ on a Vintage Hasbro Keyboard, and It’s Pure Magic
A spontaneous performance inside a neighborhood retro shop proved that 1980s hip-hop and popping plastic toy heads were made for each other.
Inside the Emergency Piano Session That Saved David Bowie and Bing Crosby's Duet
When David Bowie hesitated to sing a holiday staple, a team of songwriters had just sixty minutes to save the most unlikely TV duet in history.
Your High School Garage Band Didn't Fail—It's Just on a 58-Year Delay
When a music promoter bought a mystery $4 record at a thrift store, he had no idea he was about to give a 1960s teen rock band their ultimate second act.
The Day 10-Year-Old Tom Petty Traded His Slingshot for Elvis Presley
A brief trip to a Florida movie set set off a chain reaction that gave us one of rock’s greatest frontmen.
Who You Gonna Call? One Editor Combined 'Ghostbusters' With 11 Other 80s Hits Into the Ultimate Party Track
Audio wizard Bill McClintock stitched together 12 iconic 1980s hits—from heavy metal to R&B—into a single Halloween anthem called 'Ghostmashers.'
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Carl Douglas and producer Biddu needed standard B-side filler. What they got instead was an eleven-million-selling cultural earthquake created in ten minutes flat.
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Someone Covered ‘Brass Monkey’ on a Vintage Hasbro Keyboard, and It’s Pure Magic
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When David Bowie hesitated to sing a holiday staple, a team of songwriters had just sixty minutes to save the most unlikely TV duet in history.
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When a music promoter bought a mystery $4 record at a thrift store, he had no idea he was about to give a 1960s teen rock band their ultimate second act.
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