There was once an indelible tension between rock and disco, culminating in a so-called “disco demolition” night in 1979 that ...

Billy Squier (1980): For a moment in time, Billy Squier was everywhere, as songs like "My Kinda Lover" and "The Stroke" ruled ...

Me listening to the Paradise soundtrack while writing this. Photo: Brian Roedel/Disney Using these covers is both a misguided choice and one of the things I appreciate most about Paradise.

Meanwhile, its shimmering rhythmic elements found their way into many of the songs that followed it that decade, in a musical genre that ultimately became synonymous with the Seventies: ...