From the Tubes’ beginnings in 1972 through the end of that decade, they were among the most outrageous bands on the planet. A&M Records bankrolled the whole party
Category: History
R.E.M. named their eighth album, 1992’s Automatic for the People, after a slogan employed by Weaver D’s, a joint in their hometown of Athens, Ga.,
Just a year before, David Bowie proposed. The scene – you had Bowie on one knee, singing the old standard “April in Paris” to supermodel
The first time Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen heard “The Flame,” in 1987, he ripped the songwriters’ cassette out of the boom box it was playing
“She’s a Beauty” was the Tubes’ only Top 10 hit – and that was quite an achievement for the former art rockers from San Francisco. They’d
Poison may not have had the credibility or the chops of their peers, but they made up for their deficiencies with an unquenchable desire for stardom and
David Bowie wasn’t asleep when he should have been one night in November 1972 as he traveled by train across the U.S. desert. Having just played a handful of
In January 1968, the members of Pink Floyd were on their way to a show in Southampton, England. One of them asked if they should
The Police’s journey toward fame began on April 7, 1978, with the release of their first major-label single, “Roxanne.” That’s not to say the song
Part of Saturday Night Live‘s allure is the “live” part – the sense that anything can happen as the show flies without a net. That