Steve Perry’s 2018 return was as surprising as it was successful. There’d been rumors, of course, some stretching back years. But as one decade turned
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The biggest band in the world landed on television’s hottest show when the Rolling Stones visited Saturday Night Live on Oct. 7, 1978. It had
Judas Priest’s fifth album arrived on Oct. 9, 1978, but what it was called depends on where you live. In the U.S., the LP was
U2’s Rattle and Hum tried to be everything to everybody, with gutsy live reworkings of tracks from their smash album The Joshua Tree, cover songs
Robbie Robertson of the Band played a lot of gigs in his life — from backing Ronnie Hawkins in the Hawks to becoming Bob Dylan’s
Kiss performed their first show without their trademark face paint on Oct. 11, 1983. The change helped revitalize the band’s sagging commercial fortunes, but it
It took Billy Joel more than half a decade and five albums to catch a break. Piano Man was a Top 30 hit in 1974, but it
By 1978, AC/DC had packed their relatively short, half-decade career with five albums and hundreds of concerts. For their strenuous efforts, they deservedly attained a
Steve Martin had been honing his singularly silly stand-up act for a decade before the world truly caught on. That’s not surprising, as Martin’s comic
In order to assemble what became one of their earliest classics, Genesis had to blend the pastoral whimsy of their first couple of albums and