The release of “Here Comes My Girl,” the third single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ breakthrough album Damn the Torpedoes, represented an artistic victory
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There’s never really a way to know whether a Saturday Night Live sketch will become an instant classic or quickly fade from memory. As Will
Aerosmith were still looking for a hit album in 1975. Their first two LPs didn’t quite make into the Top 100, but dogged determination, relentless touring
With one project, the band achieved feats most artists only dream of, landing a 12-week stint at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and collecting
Officially, the breakup of the Beatles never happened. None of the Fab Four ever said they’d never work together again. In reality, though, the breakup
In 1980, the Police scored a massive hit with “Don’t Stand So Close to Me.” But was the song, which reached the Top 10 in
“Let It Be” was a massive hit and has become one of the Beatles most popular songs, but John Lennon hated it. The reasons are multifaceted. The clearest line can
Paul McCartney was so itching to break free from the group constraints of the Beatles in 1970 that his self-titled solo debut was truly a one-man
The successful partnership between Elton John and Bernie Taupin always worked on the same principles – until the day when the performer forced his co-writer to break the
“I Want You to Want Me” became Cheap Trick’s breakout hit in 1979, thanks to a live version recorded at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan a year earlier.