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
Category: History
After spending several years in the wilderness, Elton John enjoyed a much-needed comeback with his 17th studio album Too Low for Zero and its Top 5 single
A hit song can come from anywhere — and Rick Springfield’s big moment with “Affair of the Heart” happened in a public restroom. After years of commercial
Iron Maiden were bona fide heavy metal stars by 1983 and soared even higher when “Flight of Icarus” arrived as a single on April 11. They’d reached
Dave Mustaine’s troubled two-year stint in Metallica came to an end on April 11, 1983, when his ex-bandmates packed up his gear and put him on a
Many artists have participated in MTV’s Unplugged series over the years. The show’s premise is made clear in its title: Artists perform some of their best songs in an
Try as you might, you can’t reverse-engineer a blockbuster hit or social phenomenon. Judas Priest learned that the hard way when they recorded an ill-fated
Rick Springfield seemed to be on top of the world with plenty of early-’80s multiplatinum success. But he knew his third album of the decade
Paul McCartney was already enjoying an early run of post-Beatles triumphs, having secured a string of solo hits. The next stop was television, when James
He returned to the top with the band that made him famous, but things were very different for Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth in