The death of a rock star is not without commercial potential. I was reminded of this truth by this afternoon’s programming on TV LAND , whic...

Collecting—whether autographs, beer cans, baseball cards, comic books, stamps or records—is an activity that borders on the autistic. Autist...

I’d like to be able to say that the world is fundamentally different this morning from the way it was last night when I went to bed, but ala...

Have a Funky New Year everyone! And thanks very much for visiting my blog! See you next year.

Prompted by a notice in yesterday’s paper that on this December 29 Marianne Faithfull celebrated her sixty-second birthday, I began thinking...

In the dead of winter, you dream of warmer climes—such as the Caribbean. Jamaica, for instance. About the time Elvis was popularizing rock ‘...

I came across the following article, Music of a Generation: 19 Songs That Transformed America , at Americanprofile.com , the on-line version...

An “answer song” is a recording made in response (“answer”) to a previously released recording. In literary theory, the answer song would be...

I apologize for not being the most diligent blogger of late, but I’ve been extremely busy working on my book proposal for consideration in C...

Yesterday afternoon while running errands I happened to hear on the car radio Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer,” a very compelling tune that...

While watching Jailhouse Rock last night I realized I’d forgotten about the scene in which Elvis is flogged by order of the prison warden a...

In Act III, Scene iv (lines 178-79) of Shakespeare’s Hamlet , the play’s eponymous hero, Hamlet, turns to his mother and says: “I must be cr...