The Beatles fleshed out the track listings on their first couple of albums with covers drawn from their pre-fame club shows, when they were required
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Today, The Lion King is known as Elton John’s multi-million-selling, Oscar-winning 1994 triumph. Yet there was a staggering number of roadblocks to overcome, including a
The blockbuster success of the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever persuaded many radio stations to drop rock ‘n’ roll music and switch formats to disco.
The Animals’ take on “House of the Rising Sun” has been hailed as a folk-rock breakthrough, the first non-Beatles-related British Invasion No. 1 smash, and
What happens when you let longhairs who want to destroy the movie business make a movie? You get Easy Rider, a rambunctious assault of a
Since its birth, rock music has been seen as a revolutionary force and an agent of social change. But Pink Floyd’s show in Venice, Italy,
Alice Cooper got back on track after the more pop-leaning turn-of-the-decade albums Trash and Hey Stoopid by returning to what he does best: A dark plot involving
While the Woodstock name has become representative of counterculture attitudes, it’s also become somewhat representative of chaos, and not the “good” counterculture type. While it’s well-documented that
The year 1984 wasn’t exactly a time for dark, introspective prog-rock tales of adultery and fever dreams, as laid out on Roger Waters’s first solo album,
Then came the most surprising thing of all: A Jefferson Airplane reunion. After all of that time apart? After all of those career twists and