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
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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
When Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman staged a reunion appearance with David Crosby, they had to call themselves the Original Byrds. That basically sums up the troubled
When Funkadelic’s self-titled debut album came out on Feb. 24, 1970, it sounded like bits and pieces of all the music that influenced the group. But
Bob Seger’s raspy howl may have been new to a generation of fans when he achieved rock stardom with 1976’s Night Moves, but he’d actually
When we think of Jimmy Page’s solo career, we tend to remember his 1988 Outrider LP first. However, Page actually got his start decades earlier, with
The Beatles were winding down in the late ’60s, but there were still some songs that their U.S. label had never put on an album.