Led Zeppelin’s gloriously bloated sixth album, the 1975 double LP Physical Graffiti, followed its predecessor by nearly two years — an almost unthinkable stretch of
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When Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman staged a reunion appearance with David Crosby, they had to call themselves the Original Byrds. That basically sums up the troubled
When Funkadelic’s self-titled debut album came out on Feb. 24, 1970, it sounded like bits and pieces of all the music that influenced the group. But
Bob Seger’s raspy howl may have been new to a generation of fans when he achieved rock stardom with 1976’s Night Moves, but he’d actually
When we think of Jimmy Page’s solo career, we tend to remember his 1988 Outrider LP first. However, Page actually got his start decades earlier, with
The Beatles were winding down in the late ’60s, but there were still some songs that their U.S. label had never put on an album.
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant shocked fans when they reunited for MTV’s Unledded special in October 1994. The duo then sent them into a state
Before Tears for Fears released their second album, Songs From the Big Chair, on Feb. 25, 1985, they were barely known in the U.S. Not
It looked as if Aerosmith’s era of doldrums was finally over when they released Permanent Vacation in 1987. Their previous LP, Done With Mirrors, was
Steely Dan made a career out of subverting expectations. Their warped, jazz-steeped take on the blues achieved unlikely platinum success early in the band’s career —