Pete Townshend was pushing back against those who criticize grandiosity as his musical The Iron Man arrived in 1989. “I’ve always been very comfortable with
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When the Grateful Dead released their Top 20 seventh album From the Mars Hotel on June 27, 1974, it was taken as something of an
Don Henley didn’t exactly shy away from including social commentary on his first two solo albums. When it came time to record his third, however,
Freaks were freaks in 1969, and straights were scared. And even some freaks weren’t sure what to make of a new assemblage of long hairs
Can an album be recorded in only nine days? Sure it can. The Beatles needed less than 13 hours in the studio to record their
Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” became ubiquitous in modern culture over a half-century thanks to an ever-growing list of TV and movie appearances and the support
In 1978, Clint Eastwood was riding a commercial high. His foray into offbeat blue-collar comedy, Every Which Way but Loose, had defied industry expectations to
By the time Slipknot’s self-titled debut album arrived on June 29, 1999, the band was already on its seventh lineup. Similarly, some of the songs
The title of Dio’s second album could very well have referenced frontman Ronnie James Dio’s lengthy wait for solo stardom after decades served as the
When viewers in the U.K. gazed upon their television sets on July 21, 1969, they were witnessing history. Man was setting foot on the Moon