The Soft Parade arrived on July 18, 1969, as the Doors’ most experimental recording, a wildly uneven LP that found Jim Morrison and the band trying out orchestral
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“This is not the real Woodstock. They messed up. They messed up the whole name of Woodstock.” Volumes have been written about the disaster that
When VOA arrived on July 23, 1984, Sammy Hagar stood on a career precipice that neither he – nor anyone else paying attention – could
Ringo Starr was in search of a reset, after devolving into alcoholism in the ’80s. He found it within the friendly confines of a group.
“Come and Get It” proved to be a pivotal song not once, but twice, for Badfinger. First, however, they had to do it Paul McCartney’s
Alice Cooper spent most of the ’80s looking for a hit. With his 18th studio LP, Trash, the groundbreaking shock rocker promised “less gore, more
The first and third lead guitarists for the Yardbirds wound up sharing a bill with their newest bands on July 25, 1969, at the Midwest
The eponymous debut of an ambitious new group that went by the simple, direct and rather positive name of Yes arrived on July 25, 1969.
Paul McCartney began public preparations for his first U.S. tour in 13 years by returning to his storied – but often avoided – past. He
Changing his name didn’t help. By the time John Mellencamp issued a second album, his career was stalled anyway. Then he notched a sizable hit