Linda Ronstadt – Hurt so Bad (Live in Hollywood, CA 4/24/1980)
Classic Oldies In Hollywood, 1980, “Hurt So Bad” isn’t just a breakup song—it’s the moment pride stops pretending and the truth finally walks out into the light. Some songs carry their pain…
Linda Ronstadt – Faithless Love (Live in Atlanta, 1977)
“Faithless Love” sounds like the moment you finally stop asking why and start admitting what is—love that feels real, yet never stays when you need it most. There are songs…
Bee Gees – Never Say Never Again
“Never Say Never Again” is a bruised kind of romance—where pride tries to speak in calm sentences, yet the heart keeps slipping into grand, impossible vows. On Odessa, the Bee…
Neil Diamond – If I Never Knew Your Name
“If I Never Knew Your Name” is a meditation on inevitability—love imagined as something that would have existed even before words, faces, or introductions ever arrived. In the quieter corners…
Bee Gees – Kitty Can
A Glittering Fragment of Pop Innocence Before the Storm of Stardom When “Kitty Can” appeared in 1968 on the Bee Gees’ album Idea, it arrived during a year of extraordinary…
Neil Diamond – Home Before Dark
The Quiet Reckoning of a Soul Seeking Its Way Back When Neil Diamond released “Home Before Dark”, the title track of his 2008 album produced by Rick Rubin, it marked…
Linda Ronstadt – Heart Like A Wheel (Live in Offenbach, Germany. November 16, 1976)
“Heart Like a Wheel” becomes, onstage in Offenbach, a confession stripped of ornament—strength and surrender sharing the same breath. When Linda Ronstadt sang “Heart Like a Wheel” live in Offenbach,…
Bee Gees – Give Your Best
A Carnival of Hope Beneath the Dust of the Western Plains When “Give Your Best” first appeared on the Bee Gees’ 1969 double album Odessa, it was a curious, swaggering…
Neil Diamond – Morning Has Broken
“Morning Has Broken” in Neil Diamond’s hands is a hush of gratitude—less a performance than a soft sunrise you can carry, especially when life has given you more than one…
Linda Ronstadt – Tracks Of My Tears (Live in Germany, November 16, 1976)
“Tracks of My Tears” becomes, in Linda Ronstadt’s German performance, a quiet revelation—grief held with dignity, sorrow spoken plainly, and truth allowed to show through the smile. On November 16,…