Inspiration struck quickly and in an unlikely place for Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith and Bruce Dickinson when they wrote one of the band’s most enduring
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Another Side of Bob Dylan may not be his most heralded or his bestselling album, but it’s possibly his most important. Released on Aug. 8,
They say that when in a city you’ve never visited before, you should look up. That’s just what nearly 100 tourists were doing aboard the Chicago’s Little
The Beatles were responsible for a number of genuinely iconic album covers in their day, including a few that required a significant amount of preparation
For their third album, Pink Floyd was commissioned to provide the score to More, a film by Barbet Schroeder that dealt heavily with drugs. Ultimately, his
By 1984, Iron Maiden were well on their ascent to rock superstardom. Albums The Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind had brought the
As the Beatles evolved as songwriters, some of their more impressionistic, abstract lyrics became open to interpretation. For an ex-con and violent racist named Charles Manson, the
Freddie Mercury looked out at an adoring crowd of more than 120,000 people on Aug. 9, 1986 in Knebworth Park, England. Queen, had just finished its
In the middle of 1969, Mick Jagger flew down to Australia to star as the title role in Ned Kelly. But while the movie wasn’t
Woodstock ’94, also known as Woodstock II, has been called the “middle child” between the peaceful original 1969 concert and 1999’s disaster – the latter