It’s May 1968 and a turbulent age, with the life-changing political events of half a century still unfolding. Riots and revolution circle this third stone from the sun as war, terrorism and civil ...

It's 1963, and the music world is changing faster than just about anyone can keep up with. Folk singer Bob Dylan, walking down a road paved by Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and acoustic blues ...

Host to countless legendary artists, Chess Records has become an iconic fixture of reverence in the music industry, so it should come as no surprise that some of music's biggest icons would cross ...

The blues is a family business for Marshall Chess. His father, Leonard Chess, co-founded the legendary Chess Records label of Chicago in 1950. And, boy, did they release music - Chuck Berry, Muddy ...

Hollywood’s version of the Chess Records story combines the best and worst of the classic rock ‘n’ roll biopic Adrien Brody portrays Leonard Chess, a Polish immigrant junkyard owner who opens Chi-town ...

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