Things were going so well for Billy Idol that he titled a recent album Charmed Life. In fact, he was feeling so charmed that he
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Pink Floyd kicked off a tour in support of The Wall on Feb. 7, 1980, at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Auditorium – and it
The Fog, which premiered on Feb. 8, 1980, might be the most uneven of the films John Carpenter made in the first decade of his
“Only the Young” became an inspirational touchstone, a homecoming spark, then an in-concert triumph. But first, it got left off one of Journey’s biggest albums.
The Dukes of Hazzard wound down its run with a finale that aired on Feb. 8, 1985. The good ol’ boys of Hazzard County, Ga.,
When Top Gun blasted into theaters in 1986 it became a box office smash and sent Tom Cruise’s star soaring to new heights. If there
ZZ Top’s Feb. 10, 1970, appearance outside of Houston provided a rather inauspicious beginning. Billy Gibbons had just added the final pieces – Dusty Hill
“The main aim is to play some rock ‘n’ roll and have some fun,” guitarist Jimmy Page once said of the Firm. He’d formed the
When John Lennon decided to settle in New York City in 1971, his song “Give Peace a Chance” was well-known to U.S. authorities. Approximately a quarter-million people sang it
In the late ’60s, Earth were just one of the many bands playing clubs in Birmingham, U.K., but then they wrote a song called “Black Sabbath”