Sessions for the Eagles’ follow-up to Hotel California were dragging on, and executives at Asylum Records had grown concerned. Everybody needed a break. “The record
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On Dec. 28, 2015, Lemmy Kilmister, the legendary frontman of Motorhead, died following a battle with cancer. His death brought an outpouring of responses from the rock
At 11:50 PM on Jan. 1, 1971, the last television ad for cigarettes ran on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, signaling the end of
As 1995 drew to a close, so did one of the most beloved comic strips of its era, Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes. In that
Journey were already at a crossroads after just one jammy studio project. The live shows weren’t the problem. Journey were drawing nicely around the Bay
“I can learn to get along / With all the things I don’t know,” Neil Peart wrote in Rush’s 1996 song “Resist,” a power ballad partly
Eagles spent the second half of the ’70s focusing on the rock half of their country-rock sound. But they returned to the country part of the quotient on
Released in January 1989 as the seventh and final single from Hysteria, Def Leppard’s “Rocket” is notable for a bunch of call-outs to songs and artists
David Bowie orchestrated his departure with a familiar sense of mystery and panache. A clue-filled final album, released just days before Bowie finally succumbed on
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers knew they had a hit on their hands with “Refugee.” But the process of getting it down on tape caused