Stella by Starlight

There’s nothing like a jazz reverie in turbulent times. Ella Fitzgerald’s voice is so balmy, her songs so comforting and familiar, it’s easy to forget that she lived through three-quarters of a century of some of the country’s change and turmoil. You won’t hear it …

Steel Claw

The old adage goes that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in heels. Tina Turner literally gave Mick Jagger dancing lessons, but for his part Jagger usually performed in tennis shoes. Here you can see a 45 year old Tina Turner …

Steel and Glass

It was the curse of all the former Beatles that everything they did thereafter would be negatively compared to what they did as The Beatles. Still, 3/4 of them managed to produce work that would endure and be celebrated with or without the baggage of …

Stay Up Late

Perhaps the only song about staying up all night long that isn’t about doing sex. It’s about the fascination and joy of a new baby, and it elevated Talking Heads to a level of round-eyed wholesomeness usually reserved for unabashed sentimentalists like Paul McCartney. David …

Stay Hungry

I’ve always said that the only valid form of cardio was dancing to a Talking Heads record all the way through. More Songs About Buildings and Food is not one of those Talking Heads albums that could fuel a dancersize class, but they’re getting there. …

Stay Away

Performances like this one by Nirvana provoked “get off my lawn!” reactions from the cultural gatekeepers in 1992; now they’re comfortably ensconced on Classic Rock radio alongside the big boys. Probably not what Kurt Cobain intended for himself, but if there’s one everlasting truth about …

Stay

“I would scream very loudly” – David Bowie, getting a self-defense lesson on the Dinah Shore show. Whatever else we know David Bowie had going on in his life in 1976, he still appeared on middlebrow variety programmes like Dinah Shore and charmed the pearls …