Prior to the start of Saturday Night Live’s infamous late-’70s, early-’80s period that didn’t involve creator Lorne Michaels, the show was already in something of
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When Blondie started work on their third album, Parallel Lines, in the summer of 1978, they were an under-the-radar New Wave band with a nostalgic
A newly sober Motley Crue kicked off their Dr. Feelgood tour with the unlikely goal of not just continuing but improving upon their ’80s run
One of the many fascinating things about Paint Your Wagon is the amount of talent that went into bringing it to the screen, particularly given
From the start, Talking Heads never did things the way they were supposed to. So, why should their live album play by the usual rules?
A tiny treasure trove of long-lost rarities titled ’74 Jailbreak arrived on Oct. 15, 1984, to provide a back story after AC/DC shot to global
The Rolling Stones released the aptly titled It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll on Oct. 16, 1974. After everything they had been through, it was a good
Billy Joel rose to prominence in the ’70s. Still, it wasn’t until the following decade that he truly came of age, writing and recording a
It seemed that Bruce Springsteen would never part ways with the E Street Band, given how much they had been mythologized in songs like “Tenth
It was no accident that Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads found each other. Then an up-and-coming director, Demme was actually a big fan. Meanwhile, the increasingly