Category: History

“Big Love,” the opening track from Fleetwood Mac’s 14th album, Tango in the Night, was never supposed to appear under the band’s name. This was true

The early ‘80s was a challenging time for Paul McCartney. Soon after the death of John Lennon, his post-Beatles band Wings had broken up, and

Quite a bit happened in the three years between Bryan Adams’ chart-topping Reckless and its follow-up, Into the Fire. A global star after four albums,

Van Halen might have matured past their days of knock-down, drag-out fights by 2015, but that didn’t stop one of their final televised performances from

When Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Pat Carney played their first concert on March 20, 2002, they looked out on an audience that had, as Auerbach’s dad described

“Do you wanna get rocked?“ That’s the surprising question that kicks off Def Leppard’s 1992 album Adrenalize. It’s surprising because the band’s belabored, five-year gap since Hysteria (which was

The Beat’s most enduring song came not from a place of inspiration, but immaturity. Dave Wakeling, the group’s singer and guitarist, wrote “Save It for Later” before

Almost every band that achieves superstardom has a definable turning point in its career, where it goes from being just another band to a phenomenon. For Kings of

So much of the immediate praise surrounding the Rolling Stones’ hodge-podge Tattoo You album was colored by the era. Same with “Hang Fire.” The band