WADAYAKNOW!

Guess who had the Number One album of the Decade — THIS DECADE? The office mates and I were in a guess-off. Beyonce?  Jay-Z?  Kanye West?  Tim McGraw?  Keith Urban?  Carrie Underwood?  U2? Nope. The Beatles.  The Fab Four beat all of them and Britney and Madonna as well as AC/DC and Kiss who sold their releases exclusively through content [...]

The Biggest Story in a Crazy Year

Jacksonville: No, this is not a look back at 2009. Well, maybe it is. But it’s not a best-of-the year list. Besides, in a year of national and global horrors, of the usual great highs and scandalous lows, of Obama and Tiger; of Taylor Swift and Adam Lambert; of Lady Gaga and that craziness with Kanye [...]

Michael Jackson’s Last Dance

This, of course, is not it. This Is It, the documentary of rehearsals for Michael Jackson’s never-to-be “This Is It” concerts in London, is accompanied by a single of that same name and a soundtrack CD. Sony, which paid $60M for the film, will no doubt rush out a deluxe DVD set, and there’ll be more [...]

Michael Jackson: Contemplating Kids

Editor’s Note: We are honored to have legendary music writer Ben Fong-Torres acting as a regular contributor to the Vault Blog. So, what to blog about Michael Jackson that hasn’t been overblogged to death? A couple of things. Since I did interviews with the Jackson 5 in 1971 and with the Jacksons in 1976, I do [...]

Poster Corner – First Printing Sticker Shock and Does it Matter Anyway?

Antiques Road Show made a lot of people run to their closets and reach under their beds with its first broadcast of how much money a rock poster could garner. The collectability of rock posters such as the original BG Series of 1966-71 gets hotter every year — and the mint ones get rarer and rarer. If [...]
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