It's been nearly 30 years since Boy George and Culture Club exploded like a rainbow-hued confetti bomb onto airwaves, video screens, and dance floors everywhere - and the Boy has been working, in and o …

If music is the food of love, then Frank Sinatra is a one-man catering service, with a smorgasbord of tuneful delectables piled seven decades' deep. From the giddy ecstasy of romantic rendezvous to the …

No, Frank didn't create the Great American Songbook all by himself; he got - and gave - a helping hand along the way. The Academy Awardr-winning duo of Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn ranked among …

If ever a person was destined to make the song "Unforgettable" his theme, Nat "King" Cole was it. Consider this: back in the '30s and'40s, he fronted one of the hottest jazz trios ever to take the stag …

You wouldn't immediately associate the Marx Brothers' zaniness with the French-cuff elegance of Nat Cole, but it was in Groucho & Co.'s A Night In Casablanca that "Who's Sorry Now" came to fame; …

After leaving boy band Take That, then hanging out with Noel Gallagher and pretending to be in Oasis, Robbie Williams' profile plummeted. So he joined up with songwriter/producer Guy Chambers and becam …

Few bands nailed the creative ferment of the late '60s quite like Sly & the Family Stone. Their major breakthrough arrived with Stand! in 1969, after they'd offered a taste of great things to co …

Name a major development in jazz in the first half of the 20th century - odds are Lester Young was in on the ground floor. Even as a young man in the '30s, playing with Count Basie, he was at the heart …

Whether it was on account of his highly developed harmonic hipness, or simply his penchant for slipping riffs in between the cracks of the ivories, Lester Young always had a special rapport with piano  …