The celebrated Mark II lineup of Deep Purple had long refused to get back together simply to cash checks on a reunion tour. Instead, they
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Judas Priest undertook a ’70s-era rite of passage when they recorded Unleashed in the East – their first, and arguably still-definitive concert document – in
“Heartache Tonight” took forever to finish, like everything else on the Eagles’ The Long Run album. Glenn Frey’s initial inspiration was a straight-forward love of
Following the success of Star Wars in 1977, production studios saw science-fiction as a potential goldmine. So it was inevitable that NBC brought Buck Rogers in
Paul McCartney is alive and well, but a well-placed rumor had some people thinking otherwise at the end of the ’60s. The Northern Star newspaper of
One of rock’s most dramatic feuds boiled over on Sept. 24, 1989, when Starship’s tour in support of Love Among the Cannibals reached Scranton, Pennsylvania.
After honing their harmonies and polishing their country-rock grooves for half a decade, the Eagles scored a career-defining smash with 1976’s Hotel California – and
By the end of the ’70s, punk was already getting tired of the template it had laid out for itself just a few years earlier.
Like most of John Lennon’s solo albums, Walls and Bridges came with its share of bumps along the way. And like much of Lennon’s work starting around
When U2’s debut release, Three, arrived on Sept. 26, 1979, it marked the band’s third attempt at sounding convincing in the studio. And they were