“Thank you,” Frank Zappa told the Saturday Night Live audience on Oct. 21, 1978 as his first guest host spot began. “And remember I’m reading this
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Unlike the marathon session that produced most of the Beatles’ first album, the follow-up was recorded during a series of dates in the summer and
A year before Mike Oldfield released Tubular Bells, his 1973 instrumental masterpiece, even his own label was wary of its promise. As Oldfield recalled to Guitar Player in
An album heralded as a return from Bob Dylan’s born-again proselytizing, the Mark Knopfler-produced Infidels began Bob Dylan’s journey back toward mainstream music making — and it may
Matthew Perry, famous for playing Chandler Bing on the hit series Friends, played a professor teaching ‘Sarcasm 101’ while hosting Saturday Night Live on Oct.
The Star Fleet Project blasted off on Oct. 31, 1983. No, this wasn’t a NASA initiative, but the brainchild of Brian May. It all started when
The Beatles and Wings were completely in the past by the early ’80s, so Paul McCartney got down to the business of focusing on his
The rock world got a pretty good taste of Pete Townshend’s songwriting ambitions in 1969 with the Who’s Tommy, one of the more fully realized
What happens when one of the funniest men in the world became the Hardest Working Man in Show Business? The April 24, 1982, episode of
Tom Petty wrote dozens of hit songs over the course of his four-decade career as frontman of the Heartbreakers, but not all of them impressed