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Impress your acquaintances with some newly gained knowledge of string quartets. Learn which are the most popular and why, plus a little history of the form.
Crosby, Stills and Nash are recording their first album in a decade. Producer Rick Rubin, the go-to man when reinventing veteran artists, has been working with the group on a batch of classic rock covers, including "Norwegian Wood" and "Ruby Tuesday." Although there's no talk of Neil Young rejoining the lineup, the four musicians are still collaborating on a live album taken from Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 1974 tour. The live disc, which features multi-track recordings from nine different concerts, will be released in 2011. No release date for the covers album has been announced. [Guardian.co.uk]
Smack dab in the middle of the decade, 1975 was the polyester peak of the '70s, the year that captured all the glorious excesses of the Me Decade. Elton John presided over the pop charts -- his pull so powerful he could help give Neil Sedaka, that old pro who last topped the charts in the years before the Beatles, not one but two number ones -- and he ruled a year that saw Morris Albert sing about his feelings, a year where Captain & Tennille preached that "Love Will Keep Us Together," a year where Glen Campbell was a "Rhinestone Cowboy," and a year where everybody was "Kung Fu Fighting." It was such a gaudy, glitzy surface that it seemed like nothing might exist underneath, which is naturally the time that a lot of interesting things are happening.
