If you were a fan of the Monkees, the Beach Boys or even the Byrds in the 1960s, a new book has a clue for you all: Your heroes were not necessarily playing the music on their own hit records. That's ...

Jumping down a music rabbit hole, I fell upon the book “The Wrecking Crew,” about a group of studio musicians in Los Angeles who shaped hit songs in the 1960s. They were the go-to team for many ...

The behind-the-scenes studio musicians who helped shape the sound of Motown finally got their due in the 2002 documentary “Standing in the Shadows of Motown.” Backup singers to the stars received ...

Guitarist Bill Pitman, who was part of the legendary Wrecking Crew of session musicians, died on Thursday (8/11) at his home in La Quinta, California. He was 102. Born February 12, 1920 in Belleville, ...

Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to “Immediate Family,” director Denny Tedesco’s follow-up to his acclaimed documentary “The Wrecking Crew.” That earlier film, which Magnolia also ...

The unsung heroes of rock ’n’ roll can get their due if documentary filmmakers have anything to say about it. Recent films have shed light on background singers (20 Feet From Stardom) and brilliant, ...

AUSTIN, Texas — For working musicians in the 1960s, the Beatles destroyed as much as they created. The rise of the self-contained rock band — the sort of act that the Beatles embodied and popularized, ...

The legendary session bass guitar player is set to be inducted into the Rock Hall alongside the White Stripes, Soundgarden, and Bad Company in November. However, she had taken to social media to ...

"I would buy records just because they were on it." Magnolia Pictures has revealed an official trailer for a rock doc called Immediate Family, about making music in the 70s. This documentary is made ...