On June 8, 2024, Mark James died at age 83 at his home in Nashville. ““Mark’s legacy and zest for life will live on in the ...

Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling” is one of the most famous classic rock one-hit wonders of the 1970s. Notably, Blue Swede was not the first act to record the song. In addition, the writer of the ...

One-hit wonders. They’re the boogeymen of the music world, and they aren’t as fictional as we would like them to be. Every now and then, an artist will have a hit song that is so popular, that the ...

The Swedes were coming. In April of 1974, Max Martin, the absurdly efficient songwriting scientist whose glittering vision would come to colonize American pop radio in the years ahead, was three years ...

'Hooked on a Feeling' became an iconic 'Guardians of the Galaxy' moment, even if that wasn't the song featured in the opening credits scene with Peter Quill. The Guardians of the Galaxy are a bunch of ...

Last year, the Hives released their sixth studio album The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons. Today, the Swedish rock band is sharing a cover of fellow Swedish rock band Blue Swede, tackling none other than ...

Mark James, the famed songwriter behind hits including "Always on My Mind," "Hooked on a Feeling" and "Suspicious Minds," died June 8 in Nashville. He was 83. Between 1969 and 1982, Willie Nelson, ...

Grammy-winning pop, country and gospel singer B.J. Thomas has died at age 78 following a bout with lung cancer. He died earlier today at his home in Arlington, Texas. Thomas, best known for hits like ...

B.J. Thomas, the Grammy-winning singer who enjoyed success on the pop, country and gospel charts with such hits as “I Just Can’t Help Believing,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” and “Hooked on a ...