New Zealand jangle-pop legend Martin Phillipps died unexpectedly in July at age 61. Before his passing, he had a 40-year run ...

In the years before his untimely death in July, The Chills frontman Martin Phillipps talked of how he was going back through his archive of early unrecorded songs and finally putting them to tape for ...

Phil Stewart has reported from more than 60 countries ... President-elect Donald Trump's transition team are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially to include the Joint ...

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Our Christmas playlist has classics from the Kinks, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, the Pogues, Otis Redding, ...

"Put that f---ing gun down," Cher recalls telling Spector, who was found guilty of second-degree murder in 2009.

around the same time the Beatles officially broke up), it qualifies to be on the list. But I don’t really like the song very much. Neither did its writer, Paul McCartney, who thought that producer ...

When it was first released in 1994, it made a mere ripple – but 30 years on, it is a track that reigns supreme over the ...

The E Street version of "Santa Claus" was recorded live in December 1975 at Laker Hall on the campus of the State University of New York at Oswego.

Salvatore Bono entered Cher’s life as a protector and champion, talking her up to his boss, Phil Spector (or Phillip ... Cher ...

Some great songs, but not the best of albums, and I thought it was the end.” But despite the band not wanting it out and Phil Spector dumping his orchestral vomit over everything, the tunes still hold ...

His dreams for me were stalled by Phillip Spector, who insisted my voice wasn’t commercial enough and had the register of Paul McCartney. Sonny knew he had to find me the perfect song and he ...