Berna-Dean Holland is a singer with an extraordinary artistic talent  and an undoubted personal approach to music. As a songwriter she loves to talk about life and how love could be the right answer to modern deseases. When did you feel the spark about music, and how did it grow up in your life?

Berna-Dean: Well to tell the truth I felt the spark about music as I recall around 4 or 5 years of age. I remember making up songs to sing. In fact I can recall some of these ...more

TORONTO, CANADA - It was a cold day. I really don't remember what day it was, only that the night before was filled with all the things that make up rock n' roll and my head was confirming that. The taxi dropped me off at "Eastern Sound", an upper crust studio located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada. It was the Rodeo district of TO as they called it. Expensive cars, clothes and women that looked like they just walked out of a Cosmopolitan ad. I tipped the cab driver well, only because I ...more

This year has been one of surprises and achievement for Bruce Springsteen. He began 1995 with an armful of Grammys for ``Streets of Philadelphia,'' then delighted his faithful by reassembling his E Street Band for four new songs on his ``Greatest Hits'' album. He followed that with ``The Ghost of Tom Joad,'' a stark, mostly acoustic album whose bleak story songs describe a series of characters ravaged in their quest for the American Dream.

Springsteen's tour, which stopped last month in Berkeley, is ...more

Even though he engineered Dark Side Of The Moon and many other landmark recordings, by the mid-70s, Alan Parsons was experiencing dire financial troubles. Meeting manager and collaborator, Eric Woolfson, was a case of right place, right time...
“There I was, with all this success but nothing in the bank. Eric went around and said – Where’s my boy’s money? – I had just produced two consecutive number one singles, but I didn’t have the nerve to tap EMI for more ...more

Kraftwerk was founded in 1970 by Florian Schneider (flutes, synthesizers, electro-violin) and Ralf Hütter (electronic organ, synthesizers). The two had met as students at the Düsseldorf Conservatory in the late 1960s, participating in the German experimental music scene of the time, which the British music press dubbed "Krautrock".

The duo had originally performed together in a quintet known as Organisation. This ensemble released one album, titled Tone Float for RCA Records in ...more