It’s hard to think of a musician more evocative of the 1980’s than Sade Adu. Known, alongside her bandmates Paul Denman, Andrew Hale, and Stuart Matthewman, as simply Sade, her sophisticated poise and icy cool vocals came to soothe an era of rapid change, spiralling...

Dire Straits "Private Inestigation" / Elvis Costello "Watching The Detectives" / Thompson Twins "We Are Detective" / Johnny Rivers "Secret Agent Man" / Hall & Oates "Private Eyes" / Henry Mancini "The Pink Panter Theme" / Rockwell "Somebody's Watching Me" / The...

Unforgettable 

Dear listening ears/reading eyes, For a long time, I've introduced myself as a banjo player from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I'm a hiker and an environmentalist. I'm an optimist. I'm loud. I'm still all those things, but I went quiet for a few years. I cut my long...

By Peter Keepnews Jan. 23, 2024, 11:51 a.m. ET Frank Farian, the German record producer who was best known as the mastermind of Milli Vanilli, the duo that scaled the charts in 1989 but fell from grace when it was revealed that they didn’t do any of the singing on...

Taking Flight on Another World.NASA successfully conducted the first controlled flight on another planet on Monday.