Linda Ronstadt’s eponymous third LP was an abysmal chart failure, stalling at No. 163 on the Billboard pop album chart. It led to her departure
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The Waitresses’ debut album Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful? brims with anxiety, relationship advice, feminism, self-love and dry humor – all elements that still resonate today. All the

Jerry Garcia tended to downplay his solo debut. He shouldn’t have. Released on Jan. 20, 1972, Garcia ended a lengthy recording drought following Grateful Dead’s American

Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold” was initially just a short interlude nestled within a different song, “A Man Needs a Maid,” before it became a triumphant

After their 1980 debut failed to turn many heads, Huey Lewis and the News needed a hit, plain and simple. Luckily, the harmonica-toting vocalist had

Stevie Wonder was completing a lengthy journey when he hit No. 1 on Jan. 22, 1977 with “I Wish,” his funky ode to the innocence

Why John Belushi Started an ‘SNL’ Episode in a Wheelchair
Politician R. Budd Dwyer died by suicide on Jan. 22, 1987, in front of an audience of TV news cameras. Eight years later, the incident

No one said rock and roll was a safe sport. Patti Smith learned this the hard way. On Jan. 23, 1977, New York’s reigning queen of punk

Aretha Franklin was undoubtedly the Queen of Soul when she released her 18th album, Young, Gifted and Black, at the start of 1972. But she was the