Like many Rush album covers, Power Windows started with a pun and ended with a compromise. Hugh Syme, the prog-rock trio’s art director since 1975, began with
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Rush art director Hugh Syme wanted to playfully reference a famous cartoon on the cover of Exit … Stage Left, the prog-rock trio’s 1981 live
Given Hugh Syme’s work — designing album covers for some of the world’s biggest rock and metal bands — it wasn’t uncommon to encounter strange, occasionally
By the time his “Island Girl” hit No. 1 in the U.S. on Nov. 1, 1975, Elton John was at his breaking point. Almost exactly one
Comedian Darrell Hammond looked back on the unlikely success of his Saturday Night Live impersonations of Sean Connery, admitting he hadn’t expected the first performance to make the
By the time Kiss’ original lineup released their final single, the divisions that had been privately plaguing the band for years were plain for all
Sammy Hagar could be forgiven for thinking history was repeating itself when he took a 2AM phone call from Eddie Van Halen in November 1995.
On Nov. 6, 1975, a small group of music lovers filed into the Common Room of Saint Martins School of Art. Most were there to
Don Henley had seen The End of the Innocence rise and fall. Then a key Grammy win sparked newfound interest in the album, sending a
There was already discord within Sly & the Family Stone when the band’s Greatest Hits compilation debuted on the Billboard albums chart on Nov. 7, 1970. It had