Playing Back the 80s (A Decade of Unstoppable Hits) by Jim Beviglia Jim Beviglia – Playing Back the 80s (A Decade of Unstoppable Hits) (Rowman & Littlefield) It’s hard to condense the music of an entire decade into a concrete and meaningful listing. That goes doubly for an adventurous and musically rich era like the 1980s. I could probably easily come up with a list of hundreds of the greatest songs of the decade, so it’s pretty impressive that music journalist Jim Beviglia

Phil Collins – Barclays Center – Brooklyn, NY – October 14, 2018 – Photo by Mark Doyle © 2018 Phil Collins – Barclays Center – Brooklyn, NY – October 14, 2018 After a fairly long layoff, Phil Collins proved you can’t hurry retirement. After re-emerging a couple of years ago during the opening night of the US Open in Queens NY and releasing a series of his classic albums complete with side-by-side before and after photos, Mr. Collins decided to take a leap of faith and hit the