As Rush’s art director since 1975, Hugh Syme designed some of the prog-rock band’s signature images: the glowing Red Star of the Solar Federation that
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When Motley Crue presented their record label with an album that included a sentimental ballad, the label rejected it outright. But the band pushed for
In the pantheon of cheesy and over-the-top action flicks, none stand taller than Commando. The film, released Oct. 4, 1985, turned gratuitous violence and unintentionally
Eddie Van Halen’s last Van Halen concert was a hometown gig on Oct. 4, 2015, the second of two nights at the Hollywood Bowl in
It’s difficult enough to stop to think about what John Lennon would have been doing if he’d been alive to celebrate his 80th birthday on
On Oct. 10, 1980, Goldie Hawn entered the prime of her career with the release of Private Benjamin, a film that could have been a complete
Hugh Syme originally envisioned an even more grandiose cover for Rush’s 1977 classic, A Farewell to Kings. But in a development not uncommon in the
On Oct. 11, 1975 Saturday Night Live debuted on NBC. The first, largely uneven episode offered very little hint that the series would go on
Released on Oct. 16, 1981, the Human League’s Dare (or, as it was known in the U.S., Dare!) was one of new wave’s first great
When Nintendo’s NES gaming console was unleashed on American shores in October 1985, few could have predicted its cultural impact. Nintendo had originally released a system