Despite being one of rock’s most extravagant individuals, David Bowie could be equally invisible. The ’00s made that clear. He had left music behind after
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Genesis had been flirting with the mainstream for years with the psych-pop singalong of “I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe),” the crystalline chorus of
Quiet Riot singer Kevin DuBrow stood at the lip of the Glen Helen Regional Park stage on May 29, 1983, and delivered a simple exhortation to the roughly 300,000 people sprawled out
When Beck’s second single was released on an indie label in March 1993, the 22-year-old singer and songwriter had no idea what to expect. It was something of
Quiet Riot nearly sabotaged their shot at stardom when they entered the studio to record a career-defining cover of Slade’s “Cum on Feel the Noize.”
Duran Duran’s “Is There Something I Should Know?” arrived as a stand-alone song on March 14, 1983, and quickly became their first No. 1 single
David Bowie was in the mood to try something different as the early ’80s unfolded. He’d been listening to R&B and blues records while on
REO Speedwagon was an anomaly in the music industry for most of the ’70s: They got radio play and sold out arenas and even stadiums
Those who think culture is bizarre and entertaining today should really go back to some of the bonkers things that happened in the ’80s. As
Iron Maiden reached all-new levels of conceptual, progressive grandiosity on their seventh album, the aptly titled Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. But they hadn’t forgotten how