This list assumes, of course, that you already have a computer. You don't need the fastest computer to record and mix music, but it should be reasonably fast. Anything with a Core i- or even Core 2-series processor should do the trick. Just don't use a netbook.
Ashford & Simpson also had success writing for themselves: Perhaps the best-known song they sang was the 1980s hit Solid As A Rock.. His music is unmatched in terms of great songwriting, Verdine White of Earth, Wind and Fire said after learning of his friend's death.
A similarly decorum-smashing interlude occurred on the radio sixty years ago this month: â(Weâre Gonna) Rock Around the Clockâ by Bill Haley & His Comets, 1955âs song of the summer, became the first rock-and-roll record to top the Billboard âBest Sellersâ pop chart (in the two weeks following, it also topped the magazineâs âMost Played on Jukeboxes ...