John Daniel McCollum shot and killed himself on Oct. 26, 1984, while lying on his bed listening to an Ozzy Osbourne record at his home
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Gregg Allman’s bout with bronchitis forced a short postponement during their career-ending run of shows at their home base, New York’s Beacon Theatre, which concluded
In the fall of 1984, Van Halen dominated rock ‘n’ roll. Their latest album, 1984, had sold a jaw-dropping 4 million copies in less than a year. The
ZZ Top reportedly held secret recording sessions without old-school manager/producer Bill Ham so the group could give Afterburner a more modern sound. “I wouldn’t say
Personality conflicts that had been privately tearing Kiss apart were made public on Oct. 31, 1979, during a live interview on national television. Everything went
The Toxic Twins had gotten clean. The song doctors had been summoned. The sound had been smoothed out. In the late ’80s, with the help
When Nirvana took the stage of the Sony Music Studios in New York City on Nov. 18, 1993, their third (and ultimately final) studio album
The twin departures of both Marty Balin and (briefly) Grace Slick gave Jefferson Starship an opportunity to update its sound in advance of new decade.
From a sonic standpoint, Tom Petty’s recorded output from 1981 to 1991 is a study in addition, from the relatively stripped-down work he and the
The record, which found him being augmented by many of his Heartbreakers bandmates, was produced by Rick Rubin and included some of his most memorable