Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, courtesy Kristin Burns In conversation, Dave Stewart can spontaneously time-travel from where he sits in his home in Nashville to his 30s, his early childhood growing up in his parents’ row house in northwest England, to the early days of the Eurythmics or his…

Duran Duran performs at Outside Lands in Golden gate Park on Aug. 5, 2016. Che Holts/STAFF. It’s annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame week, which means the music snobs have arrived in force, and are currently crying about the good old days and how new inductee Pat Benatar…

Daryl Hall, ‘BeforeAfter.’ The songs of Hall and Oates permeated both the AM and FM airwaves in the later 1970s and much of the ’80s, with 29 Top-40 singles (six of them going to No. 1). These were slick songs, most of them mid-tempo earworms that mixed Philly soul…

It’s long been noted that British folks with very thick speaking accents often sound very American when singing. In 1983, a British sociolinguist named Peter Trudgill studied the phenomenon and concluded the disparity in inflection probably owed to the fact that the British singers were so deeply influenced by…

Dave Stewart and Thomas Lindsey (Stewart Lindsey), Courtesy. Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart is a tough man to reach as he waits out the COVID-19 pandemic on a tiny island in the Caribbean, but eventually a thick northern British accent comes onto the staticky link. While he may be enjoying a…

Do you recognize these skinny boys? I really, really wanted to include “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in the 1983 top 5 song list. You know the “so bad it’s good” genre of movies? Stuff like Plan 9 From Outer Space and Manos: The Hands of Fate? “Total Eclipse of the…