Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Since his passing in 2005, Luther ... packed effort. Vandross first reached the U.K.’s list of the bestselling albums and EPs ...

In 1986, with several platinum albums already to his name ... holding the phone up to the speaker whenever a Vandross song came on the radio. Luther: Never Too Much is a wonderful 100 minutes ...

I think Luther Vandross is an artist I took for ... “Never Too Much,” because though I was only two when the album was released, it might be the song I’ve heard the most over the 45 years ...

For most of his career, Luther Vandross cut a puzzling figure. A charming romantic whose songs were so celebrated ... When he was later chosen to produce albums by Aretha Franklin and Dionne ...

But by the ’70s, a tsunami of Black acts like Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire leaned into amorphous songwriting, which yielded intricate, diffuse albums ... the Luther Vandross song that ...

The original version of “Funky Music” is a single on his self-titled 1976 debut album, “Luther.” Bowie’s support of a young Vandross shouldn’t be a surprise for those who followed ...

The story of R&B legend Luther Vandross and his iconic music is now available for home viewing after playing the Freep Film Festival in 2024.