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Future Retro: Home of the Quick Serve
Obsessive fans know the sheer agony of waiting years, even decades, for their favorite oldies (ahem, classic) artist to finally release a new album of substandard material on a record label no one has
Read More »Future Retro: Jody Watley
A TOUCH OF SHALAMAR Singer, songwriter, and producer Jody Watley first boogied her way to fame at the age of 14 as a dancer on the legendary music program Soul Train. In 1976 the
Read More »Future Retro: RuPaul
A SIMPLE GIRL WITH A DREAM I have one thing to say – RuPaul Andre Charles was an unlikely success story to say the very least. As a young drag queen in San Diego,
Read More »Future Retro: Laura Branigan
CALLING GLORIA Laura Branigan is a classic example of a great and underrated talent whose life and career were cut short far too soon. Laura possessed an elastic alto voice with a stunning four-octave
Read More »Future Retro: Sheena Easton, “Fabulous”
SHE’S A MODERN GIRL (na na na na na) Back in the neon-colored days of the ’80s, Sheena Easton ruled the Adult Contemporary charts with a well-manicured fist. Sheena first began her ascension to
Read More »Future Retro: Vinyl Record Day
LOCATION: Anytown, USA TIME: The Early ’80′s A young, burgeoning music fan has got to start somewhere. This is the brief, snappily-written story of how a young man with a quick wit and a
Read More »Future Retro: The Weather Girls
TWO TONS O’ TALENT San Francisco’s Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes first rose to fame in 1977 as Two Tons O’ Fun, background singers of choice for drag-tastic disco diva and ’70′s icon Sylvester.
Read More »Future Retro: George Michael
WHAM! BAM! Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou seemed an unlikely choice to become a pop music superstar. However, after meeting schoolmate Andrew Ridgeley and forming a group called Wham!, a pop star is exactly what the
Read More »Future Retro: Blue Dolly
A TENNESSEE GODDESS Dolly Rebecca Parton has had one of the most enduring and multi-faceted careers in music history. She is beloved for her iconic status as a pop culture legend as well as
Read More »Future Retro: Tiffany, “The Color of Silence”
“IS THAT GIRL SINGING AT THE MALL?” Yes, she was. In 1987, Tiffany Darwish unleashed her self-titled debut album upon a world of dazed and confused teenagers swathed in stone-washed jeans, Day-Glo colors, and
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