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Craig Harris was called “One of the busiest music journalists and photographers in New England” by Sing Out! magazine The author of The New Folk Music, published in 1991 by White Cliffs Media Publishing, Harris has written for newspapers, including the Boston Globe, the Middlesex News, The Christian Science Monitor and The Village Voice and for magazines including Dirty Linen, Folkroots, New Country, The New England Folk Almanac and Bluegrass Unlimited
Since my early childhood days, my interest in music has never ceased I grew up in an environment where I was exposed to different genres of music, which started me on the road to collecting records (mainly R&B) and studying the entertainment industry
Originally known as “the Annoying Thing,” the helium-voiced, bluish-gray, anatomically correct CGI lump Crazy Frog became a pop culture epidemic in Europe and especially the U
An institution in their homeland, a two-hit wonder in the US, and, during the last half of their ten-year career, bona fide stars in the UK and most of Europe, Crowded House recorded some of the best pop music of the late ’80s and early ’90s
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal swept over America like a wave in the early 1980s, and for every major market band like Quiet Riot or Motley Crue, there were literally dozens of lesser acts making waves out of smaller cities across the nation
Few new wave groups were as popular as Culture Club During the early ’80s, the group racked up seven straight Top Ten hits in the UK and six Top Ten singles in the US with their light, infectious pop-soul
Fusing wide-ranging influences from the Hermits to Ray Stevens to Randy Newman, Robertson’s parodies turn reverential and taken-for-granted concepts of pop music inside out
Cy Coleman did have smll impact on jazz scene, but his major importance comes as composer and force in theater He had a recital at Steinway Hall at the age of six, and was playing Manhattan super clubs at 17
Cyndi Lauper was one of the biggest stars of the early MTV era, selling five million copies of her debut album, She’s So Unusual, as well as scoring a string of four Top Ten hits from the record, including the major hits “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and “Time After Time
New York-born and England-based composer/conductor Carl Davis has delivered ear-catching symphonic music for more than four decades His dramatic scores have been performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theater while the pieces he composed for ballet have been utilized by the London Contemporary Theater Company, the Sadler Wells Royal Ballet, the Northern Ballet Theater, and the English National Ballet Company