John Peel was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.

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...

Hal Blaine is the accompanist to Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound” and one of the most sought-after session drummers in L.A. He has played on forty Number One singles.Blaine, who was born Harold Simon Belsky in 1929, became a professional drummer in 1948. In 2000, Blaine...

Dayes introduces Black Classical Music in his own words; "What is jazz? Where did the word derive from? Birthed in New Orleans, born in the belly of the Mississippi River, rooted in the gumbo pot of the Caribbean, South American culture & African rituals....

Alan White, Yes and Plastic Ono Band drummer, dead at 72 By Toyin Owoseje, CNN

The album Café Bleu, released this month in 1984.