Steely Dan made a career out of subverting expectations. Their warped, jazz-steeped take on the blues achieved unlikely platinum success early in the band’s career —
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Tom Petty smash single “Don’t Come Around Here No More” allowed him to channel Prince’s psychedelic influences – but his involvement was purely accidental. Stevie
Two heavyweights of rock came together when Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes joined for a series of dates that resulted in Live at the
On March 1 of that year, the 78-year-old monarch revealed her lack of rock knowledge during a Buckingham Palace event honoring the British music industry.
The Guess Who can thank a bootlegger for their first-ever chart-topping Billboard single. “American Woman” grew out of a loose jam session while on stage,
Robert Fripp heard something in Daryl Hall that was more interesting, and far more complex, than Hall and Oates were releasing in the ’70s. Hall’s
It’s important to remember that things moved much faster in the music biz back in the ’60s. Even with modern artists writing, recording and posting
The Beatles didn’t seem capable of letting one of their final singles be. They recorded multiple versions of “Let It Be” in late January 1969
Diamond Dogs arrived after David Bowie retired his Ziggy Stardust persona, but the 1974 album still bore some of the hallmarks of the same multi-platinum
Hearing it now, it feels like a minor miracle of mid-’00s rock, a deceptively fleet-footed and brisk odyssey through the innuendo of a typically provocative