"B.B. may be gone, but that thrill will be with us forever. And there's going to be one killer blues session in heaven tonight."
President Barack Obama.
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Today marks the 65th birthday of the soul superstars that there has ever been, arguably he is the soul superstar – everybody knows his name, and we bet almost e...
After rumours that Ben E. King had died this morning – and subsequent rumours that suggested it was a hoax – it has been confirmed that the soul icon has sadly ...
Today marks what would have been Luther Vandross’ 64th birthday. For us here at TF&SR there are few other singers in popular music who had the ability to si...
It's been an incredibly exciting weekend for us here at Tf&SR as we were invited on board George ‘Dr Funkenstein’ Clinton’s Mothership to experience the P-F...
Yesterday the sad news broke that the R&B singer Percy Sledge died at the age of 73. Last year Sledge had gone on to receive treatment for liver cancer, whi...
On April 1st 1984 Marvin Gaye was shot dead at his Mother’s home by his Dad, Marvin Gay Sr. At the time Gaye should have been riding a wave of new popularity wi...
On March 25th 1942 Barbara Franklin and the Reverend C.L Franklin welcomed into the world the future Queen of Soul, their daughter Aretha. There’s little else t...
For today’s Rare Cut here on TFSR we’re celebrating the birthday of one of the greats, the incredible Chaka Khan! Over the course of her career as vocalist with...
It’s fair to say that everyone – consciously or subconsciously - knows Curtis Mayfield’s ‘Move on Up’, originally released in 1970 on the Curtis album. It truly...
