In the fall of 1984, Van Halen dominated rock ‘n’ roll. Their latest album, 1984, had sold a jaw-dropping 4 million copies in less than a year. The
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ZZ Top reportedly held secret recording sessions without old-school manager/producer Bill Ham so the group could give Afterburner a more modern sound. “I wouldn’t say
Personality conflicts that had been privately tearing Kiss apart were made public on Oct. 31, 1979, during a live interview on national television. Everything went
The Toxic Twins had gotten clean. The song doctors had been summoned. The sound had been smoothed out. In the late ’80s, with the help
When Nirvana took the stage of the Sony Music Studios in New York City on Nov. 18, 1993, their third (and ultimately final) studio album
The twin departures of both Marty Balin and (briefly) Grace Slick gave Jefferson Starship an opportunity to update its sound in advance of new decade.
From a sonic standpoint, Tom Petty’s recorded output from 1981 to 1991 is a study in addition, from the relatively stripped-down work he and the
The record, which found him being augmented by many of his Heartbreakers bandmates, was produced by Rick Rubin and included some of his most memorable
Elvis Presley enjoyed his last No. 1 hit when “Suspicious Minds,” released the previous week, reached the top spot on Nov. 1, 1969. It was
Has anyone in rock history had a year as productive and as uniformly excellent as Creedence Clearwater Revival did in 1969? The group started the