JOHN LIAS HAS GOT MORE SOUL IN THE SECOND VOLUME OF SPINNING AROUND
Zulema Cusseaux’s 1978 album, Z-licious, was a product of its times, peppered as it was with “inevitable disco touches.” Van McCoy wrote three songs and sang on “I’m Not Dreaming,” a “dull ballad that became her last soul hit at…
YACHTS SET SAIL AGAIN WITH NEW BOX SET
It was a fluke that the British new wave band Yachts developed their signature “garage-y pop sound,” as described by head Yachtsman Henry Priestman. And it was just by chance that the band got signed in the first place. Yachts’…
AUTHOR IS DOTTING HIS “I”S AND CROSSING HIS TEES ON VOLUME II OF SPINNING AROUND
When Willie Tee’s 1969 album I’m Only A Man was released it barely received any promotion and sunk without a trace. Which was a pity because it’s a good album, according to John Lias, author of Spinning Around, A History of…