On Aug. 27, 1979, Pat Benatar released her debut album, In the Heat of the Night. The LP launched the singer’s career, helping her to
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The mid-to-late ’60s saw the Beatles morphing from mop-topped pop stars into Nehru jacket-wearing mystics. Their transformation may have started on Aug. 28, 1964, when
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Ronnie James Dio appeared tired but happy after the Mob Rules lineup of Black Sabbath – touring under the name Heaven and Hell – completed
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On Aug. 30, 2014, 14 songs into their performance at Tailgater’s Sports Bar in Bolingbrook, Ill., the band named Queensryche Starring Geoff Tate took a short
In hindsight, there’s little doubt that Iron Maiden delivered a heavy metal landmark with their fifth album. But at the time Powerslave was released on
In a delicious twist, Neil Young won Video of the Year Award for “This Note’s for You” on Sept. 6, 1989, at the MTV Video
It took nearly 20 years for John Paul Jones to make a personal musical statement after Led Zeppelin’s breakup in 1980. When he did, he