Rock fans and contemporaries are mourning the death of a musician who had his biggest hits in the 1980s. John Sykes, an English guitarist who was a member of both Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake, died after ...
When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...