Many of us have favorite stories we return to again and again. Even though we know the characters, the incidents, and how the whole thing turns out, there’s something about…
The #1 Albums
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If you like music and you like to write, challenge yourself with this task: Say something fresh about Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. When the album’s 40th anniversary was celebrated…
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As the spring of ’67 turned into the Summer of Love, two of the top acts of 1966 returned to the top of the album chart as the world waited…
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The original Pre-Fab Four set chart marks the original Fabs never matched.
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Billboard magazine began publishing an album chart in 1945, and it wasn’t long before a soundtrack album hit #1: Song of Norway, from a musical adaptation of the works of…
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The list of great Motown albums doesn’t start to fill in until 1971 or so, when Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder used their new creative freedom to make fully realized…
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One of the many fascinating subtexts in the current season of Mad Men involves the seismic shift in youth culture that began in 1966, the year in which the season…
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The Chairman of the Board is not finished, by a long shot.
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The album that contains some of the most magnificent music to come out of the 1960s, including “California Dreamin'” and “Monday Monday.”
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Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler had been wounded in Vietnam while serving with the Green Berets, an elite special-forces unit. While recovering, he was filmed by a TV crew singing a…
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While the kids were buying Beatles records, their parents were buying Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
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