By the mid-’80s, Phil Collins already had a pair of Top 10 solo albums to his credit, plus his day job in a little band
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Mick Jagger’s first solo album actually began with a song co-written by his Rolling Stones bandmate Keith Richards. That’s where similarities to the band ended on She’s the
A casual evening of drinking with friends took a terrible turn when AC/DC frontman Bon Scott passed out in his car and then choked to
Presented with the biggest hit they’d ever have, Simple Minds initially balked. “We are Simple Minds; we don’t do songs that sound like Simple Minds,”
Bob Dylan was one album into his late-career comeback when he released “Things Have Changed,” the Academy Award-winning song from Wonder Boys, which arrived in theaters on Feb. 22,
When soft-rock duo Air Supply reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in February 1980, the song U.S. listeners heard wasn’t the same as the
Sometimes it’s best not to overthink things when inspiration strikes. Queen singer Freddie Mercury discovered that while writing what would become the band’s first No. 1 single in the U.S. The group was plotting its
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr began filming the second Beatles movie on Feb. 23, 1965. The project was originally named Eight
Elton John’s “Philadelphia Freedom” wasn’t crafted as a patriotic song, though it became one anyway during the U.S. Bicentennial celebrations. Released on Feb. 24, 1975,
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