Gaylord Fields
Senior Editor
Before becoming Senior Editor at AOL Music, Gaylord held staff editorial positions at Rolling Stone and Spin magazines. His writing on music and popular culture can be found not only in Spinner but in a variety of Web and print magazines as well as books.
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'I Want to Hold Your Hand,' The Beatles 1963 single I can proudly state that I was one of the record-setting 73 million Americans who witnessed the Beatles performing 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' and three other soon-to-be-ubiquitous songs in the course of their historic debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' that landmark Sunday of Feb. 9, 1964. I can ...
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The received wisdom is that there are but two surviving Beatles: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Absent from the celebration of the release of the Fab Four's remastered albums and the Beatles: Rock Band video game is original drummer Pete Best, the only other person on the planet who can rightfully call himself a Beatle.
With his moody good ...
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'The Love You Save,' the Jackson 5 From 1970's 'ABC' As a bubblegum-chewing and -listening 9-and-a-half-year-old urban black kid in mid-1970, I was as predisposed to fall for the pop-soul sticky chicle of the Jackson 5's third Motown single (and third No. 1), 'The Love You Save' as a boy could be. Though Michael Jackson was chronologically two ...
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Like Michael Jackson, Ben Lee got his start as an adolescent performer, which adds an extra layer to the Australian singer-songwriter's poignant words about Jackson's passing. "Michael Jackson's death is a very surreal moment for people my age," Lee tells Spinner. "He was such an omnipresent figure in pop culture for as long as I can remember. It ...
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Don Cornelius, the creator and host of the long-running TV musical institution 'Soul Train,' reminisces about when he discovered the prodigious and precocious musical talents of the late Michael Jackson. "I met Michael Jackson at the age of 8, when his father and my new friend, Joe Jackson, first began to bring the Jackson 5 to Chicago, from their ...
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Being one of this decade's suavest fashion mavens, 'From G's to Gents' host Fonzworth Bentley tips his hat to the late Michael Jackson, who set several style trends in his long career as a chart-topping icon. "I grew up with Michael Jackson as my idol," Bentley tells Spinner. "It was a family affair. We would all sit around the television whenever ...
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Hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons, who as a co-founder of Def Jam Records is well versed on world-changing musical movements, reflects upon the passing of Michael Jackson at age 50 and the cultural significance of the King of Pop. "Michael Jackson was my generation's most iconic cultural hero," Simmons tells Spinner. "Courageous, unique and ...
