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Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 17

Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 17

Popdose Staff October 26, 2011 5

The good ship AM Gold has arrived in 1966, and we're forced to confront an age-old question -- how do you separate art from the artist

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The Very Guest of… Mick Jagger

The Very Guest of… Mick Jagger

Jack Feerick September 20, 2011 4

Perhaps it’s simply that no band — not even the World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band — can constrain an ego a talent as great as that which blesses Sir Michael Philip Jagger. Perhaps

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Greatest Un-Hits: The Roches’ “We” (1979)

Brian Boone May 11, 2011 2

“We” is a personal introduction by the Roches, about the Roches, from their first album, The Roches. After saying that they don’t give out their ages or their phone numbers, they joke that their

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Popdose Flashback ’90: Wilson Phillips, “Wilson Phillips”

Matthew Bolin July 12, 2010 15

I blame Mike Love. Yes, it’s so easy to blame the guy for everything wrong in music. I mean, he’s egotistical, gave money to help get the PMRC off the ground, takes way too

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Sugar Water: There’s Always a Riot Goin’ On

Robert Cass October 30, 2009 19

The following piece originally appeared as an entry in Popdose’s Most Disturbing Halloween EVER! series. “Everyday People” entered the Billboard Top 40 on January 4, 1969. Six weeks later it was the number-one song

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