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Popdose Flashback: Tom Petty, “Full Moon Fever”
This week in Popdose Flashback, Scott Malchus takes us back to the birth of Tom Petty's first solo flight. Twenty years later, he still has Full Moon Fever -- do you
Read More »Popdose Flashback: Milli Vanilli and the Triumph of Substance
For fans of pop music with integrity, the pop charts of 1989 were a desolate place. Between an avalanche of soul-sapping covers (Michael Damian, Michael Bolton, Martika), the blatant New Edition ripoff that was
Read More »Popdose Flashback: Paul McCartney, “Flowers in the Dirt”
For much of his solo career, it was Paul McCartney’s peculiar fate to seem perpetually in need of a creative comeback. Chafing against the impossibly high standard he set for himself with his Beatles
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