The use of a music montage in feature length films has been employed with great frequency over the last thirty years. Usually such a sequence is okay. Sometimes it is gut wrenchingly awful and on rare instances it is fantastic. There are a couple of criteria for making a music montage work. First, the song ...
After listening to Roy Orbison’s Only The Lonely again, I wanted to know more about him. He had one of the most incredible voices in the history of Rock and Roll. And this was in the day when there were no studio enhancements to speak of. There were no elaborate sound boards, and mixing systems ...
Van Halen was established in Pasadena, California in 1972. Since that time, Van Halen has become one of the legendary bands of rock music. They have had hits in several decades. In the 1980s, they had more hit records than any other band in rock or heavy metal music. Their distinctive style has won them ...
Sad songs of misery, lost or unrequited love, betrayal, anguish, teardrops, helpless or hopeless love appear in every decade and there have been heartaches by the number even before Ray Price and Guy Mitchell sang that tune in 1959. Let’s take a trip back in time to the 1980s to see who sang about losing ...
