Gladys Knight & the Pips
Licence To Thrill: The Glorious Voice Of Gladys Knight
Selections from the songbook of one of soul music's great vocal stylists.
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Features7 months ago‘I Wish It Would Rain’: It Was Pouring No.1s For The Temptations
‘I Wish It Would Rain' topped the Billboard soul listing for February 17, 1968, as the Tempts' fabulous run of No. 1s continued.
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Features7 months ago
‘(Do The) Push and Pull’: Stax Soul Man Rufus Thomas Pushes To No. 1
In February 1971, '(Do The) Push & Pull' went No.1 R&B when Thomas had been recording for 20 years, and was already 53 years old.
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News7 months ago
‘Midnight Train To Georgia’ Songwriter Jim Weatherly Dies At 77
The Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee also penned ‘Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me’ and ‘Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye).’
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Features9 months ago
‘All The Girls In The World Beware!!!’: Grand Funk Muscle In
'All The Girls In The World Beware!!!' was the band's second album of 1974, their ninth studio release and their 11th chart LP in just over five years.
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Features9 months ago
‘Special Occasion’: Special Indeed For Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
The group's second and final R&B No.1 album 'Special Occasion' came nearly three years after the first.
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Features9 months ago
‘Let’s Do It Again’: The Staple Singers’ Big-Screen Soul Smash
The score album combined two great American talents, performed by the Staples and written and produced almost entirely by Curtis Mayfield.
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Features10 months ago
‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’: Gladys Knight Predates Marvin Gaye
The checkered story of 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' included Gladys and the group's R&B No.1 version, before Marvin took ownership of the song.
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Features11 months ago
ʻI Heard It Through the Grapevine’: How Marvin Gaye Claimed A Soul Classic
Only a year after Gladys Knight and the Pips took it to the top of the R&B chart, Marvin made 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' his for keeps.
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News5 years ago
Death Of ‘Astral Weeks’ Producer Lewis Merenstein
Lewis Merenstein, whose most famous credit was producing Van Morrison's 1968 classic Astral Weeks, died on 6 September in New York at the of 81.
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News6 years ago
Death Of Pips Co-Founder William Guest
William Guest, a founder member of Gladys Knight & the Pips whose harmonies were on all their memorable hits, passed away on Christmas Eve at 74.
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News6 years ago
Ms. Ross Remembers Michael Masser
Diana Ross has paid tribute to Michael Masser, writer of some of the best-loved ballads of the past 40 years, after his death on Thursday (July 9).
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News6 years ago
U2 Guitar Under The Hammer At Silver Clef Awards
A Gibson Les Paul Music Rising Guitar signed by U2 will be auctioned at the 40th anniversary of the O2 Silver Clef Awards in London on Friday (July 3).
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New Releases6 years ago
Women Of Soul Celebrated In New Collection
The vital presence of women of soul in the history of R&B, from Nina Simone to Jessie Ware, is commemorated in the new UMC compilation ‘Soul Sisters.’
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News7 years ago
Marvin Gaye Has The U.K.’s Motown Favourite
The Nation’s Favourite Motown Song ended with the revelation that the Tamla track that won the vote was… Marvin Gaye’s ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’.
