Elvis Presley was a movie star. This is a fact that often gets lost in our memory of him, but in the 13 years between his
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“Black Water” became the Doobie Brothers’ first song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1975 – but it took an unusual series
In a classic example of life imitating art, dark clouds were brewing as Deep Purple unveiled Stormbringer on Nov. 16, 1974. The irony is that
Supergroups often turn out to be less than the sum of their parts, but when those parts are as incredible as Nirvana/Foo Fighters veteran Dave
The Kinks returned from the dead in the late ’70s. After establishing themselves as one of the most raw and creative bands of the British
S&M arrived on Nov. 19, 1999, as a daring encounter with a symphony from Metallica. For James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Jason Newsted,
Don Henley’s solo debut, 1982’s I Can’t Stand Still, performed respectably on the charts, peaking at No. 24 and selling more than half a million
Bono reflected on U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb about a year after its arrival on Nov. 22, 2004: “It’s the best collection of
Tobe Hooper, of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist fame, tried bringing Stephen King’s vampire novel Salem’s Lot to TV in November 1979. The
Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain took his own life in April 1994 – and many people saw the tragedy as a death knell for grunge, the