Category: History

The blockbuster success of the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever persuaded many radio stations to drop rock ‘n’ roll music and switch formats to disco.

The Animals’ take on “House of the Rising Sun” has been hailed as a folk-rock breakthrough, the first non-Beatles-related British Invasion No. 1 smash, and

What happens when you let longhairs who want to destroy the movie business make a movie? You get Easy Rider, a rambunctious assault of a

Since its birth, rock music has been seen as a revolutionary force and an agent of social change. But Pink Floyd’s show in Venice, Italy,

Alice Cooper got back on track after the more pop-leaning turn-of-the-decade albums Trash and Hey Stoopid by returning to what he does best: A dark plot involving

While the Woodstock name has become representative of counterculture attitudes, it’s also become somewhat representative of chaos, and not the “good” counterculture type. While it’s well-documented that

The year 1984 wasn’t exactly a time for dark, introspective prog-rock tales of adultery and fever dreams, as laid out on Roger Waters’s first solo album,

Then came the most surprising thing of all: A Jefferson Airplane reunion. After all of that time apart? After all of those career twists and

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

“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