(Vocals, b. 1975) Canadian crooner Michael Bublé crossed over to the mainstream in the Noughties, going on to sell over 20 million records. Sophomore LP It’s Time (2005) broke into Billboard’s Top 10 before 2007’s Call Me Irresponsible finally reached the top spot. He cemented his success in 2009 when Crazy Love reached No. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic, going four times platinum in the UK. Styles & Forms | ...
(Vocals, b. 1938) Born James Smith, Proby’s career began on a Houston radio station in 1949, but by the early 1960s, he was an also-ran, taping demos for the similar-sounding Elvis Presley. However, on uprooting to Britain, a mannered vocal style, picaresque image and scandalous trouser-splitting publicity assisted the passages of ‘Hold Me’, ‘Somewhere’, 1967’s ‘Niki Hoeky’ (his only US hit) and other singles into the charts. These remain the cornerstone ...
(Vocal group, 1965–75) Modelled on The Beach Boys and Four Seasons, and planting feet in both the easy-listening and hippy camps, this Californian sextet’s domestic chart career began with 1966’s ‘Along Comes Mary’. Next up were ‘Cherish’ and ‘Pandora’s Golden Heebie Jeebies’. After ‘Windy’ reached No. 1 and ‘Never My Love’ did nearly the same, The Association enjoyed another two domestic smashes in 1968, ‘Everything That Touches You’ and ‘Time For ...
Until it was reclaimed with an ironic wink by 1990s hipsters, easy listening had been hugely popular, but rarely cool. While the teenagers of the 1950s and 1960s were getting off on dangerous rock’n’roll and subversive R&B, their parents were sweetly cocooned in the music of Mantovani and Percy Faith. Easy listening music never launched any rebellions; no riots raged to its syrupy strains. When Sam Mendes, the director of the ...
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