In late 1971, a track with a very distinctive rhythm section reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Isaac Hayes’s “Theme from Shaft”—and its rat-a-tat, sixteenth-note high-hat cymbals ...

Johnnie Walker, a former BBC Radio 2 DJ known for hosting the “Sounds of the 70s” show, died Monday. He was 79. The news was ...

Bob Harris soundtracks your New Year's Eve and pays tribute to Johnnie Walker.

For “Blow by Blow,” his first true solo album, Beck jettisoned the vocalists, teamed with epic producer George Martin and embraced a booming jazz-fusion scene for one of the Seventies’ finest ...

The BBC radio presenter Johnnie Walker has announced he's hanging up his headphones after a 58-year career because of ill health. He will step down from presenting Sounds of the 70s and The Rock ...

Dig into the musical treasures of the 70s ...