Category: History

Metallica attempted to correct the heavy metal universe’s cosmic balance on Sept. 12, 2008, with their ninth studio album. Death Magnetic doubled as musical homecoming

David Bowie’s multiplatinum album Let’s Dance feels like a commercial release today, only because the LP sold so well. Back then, this canny new blend of R&B-soaked dance

“There are no second acts in American lives,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his unfinished, posthumously published novel The Last Tycoon. But Meat Loaf proved

Richard Wright was in the midst of a comeback alongside his Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour before cancer claimed his life on Sept. 15, 2008. The

Jim Morrison made a career of nodding off at inopportune moments. He passed out when the rest of the Doors were expecting him in the

Kiss’ simultaneously released 1978 solo albums were partially designed to help keep an unhappy Peter Criss in the band. The plan didn’t work. They were

Unlike Peter Criss and Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons was completely happy with his role in Kiss circa 1978. So when the band decided to record

You might know the words to Led Zeppelin’s Top 20 single “D’yer Mak’er” from 1973’s Houses of the Holy, but do you know how to pronounce

Paul Stanley said he used his 1978 solo album to work through the complicated emotions churned up by a real-life love triangle. The Kiss star

Bon Jovi intended to take time off and recharge after completing their 16-month tour in support of Slippery When Wet. A month, to be exact.