Long ago, I wrote in the Guardian that a 1980 London performance by the Art Ensemble of Chicago – Lester Bowie (trumpet), Joseph Jarman (saxes), Malachi Favors Maghostut (bass), Roscoe Mitchell (sax and composition) and […]
Pink honored Olivia Newton-John at the 2022 American Music Awards on Sunday with a performance of one of the late singer’s most beloved hits. Pink performed “Hopelessly Devoted to You” from the 1978 musical “Grease” […]
Music Between Bonita Applebum, Butter and the Jam, hip-hop titans A Tribe Called Quest are not shy about paying gastronomic homage. On Ham’n’Eggs, floating like croutons over a languid beat-soup, Q-Tip and Phife Dawg tie […]
Perhaps nobody in the world understands Olivia Newton-John like The Chicks, because perhaps no other artists have reinvented female superstardom before facing a wildly out of proportion backlash — that’s Xanadu and “We’re ashamed that the President of […]
Country music group the Chicks honored the late Olivia Newton-John on Saturday evening by performing a cover of “Hopelessly Devoted to You” from “Grease.” While playing the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington, singer Natalie Maines paid […]