On Oct. 25, 1990, The Simpsons unleashed its first “Treehouse of Horror” episode, launching a Halloween television tradition. When formulating their concept, show creator Matt Groening
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Over the course of the past 50 years, it’s become increasingly apparent that, for many people, satire is one of the best ways to understand American
Like many Rush album covers, Power Windows started with a pun and ended with a compromise. Hugh Syme, the prog-rock trio’s art director since 1975, began with
Rush art director Hugh Syme wanted to playfully reference a famous cartoon on the cover of Exit … Stage Left, the prog-rock trio’s 1981 live
Given Hugh Syme’s work — designing album covers for some of the world’s biggest rock and metal bands — it wasn’t uncommon to encounter strange, occasionally
By the time his “Island Girl” hit No. 1 in the U.S. on Nov. 1, 1975, Elton John was at his breaking point. Almost exactly one
Comedian Darrell Hammond looked back on the unlikely success of his Saturday Night Live impersonations of Sean Connery, admitting he hadn’t expected the first performance to make the
By the time Kiss’ original lineup released their final single, the divisions that had been privately plaguing the band for years were plain for all
Sammy Hagar could be forgiven for thinking history was repeating itself when he took a 2AM phone call from Eddie Van Halen in November 1995.
On Nov. 6, 1975, a small group of music lovers filed into the Common Room of Saint Martins School of Art. Most were there to