Eric Clapton was visibly intoxicated onstage at a concert in Birmingham on Aug. 5, 1976. But the message he spoke at the mike was clear. As
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Bootsy Collins’ 1976 album Stretchin’ Out in Bootsy’s Rubber Band has long been considered a funk masterpiece. But what becomes clear all these years later
During the mid-’60s, Sonny & Cher skyrocketed to the top of the pop music charts. Cher’s statuesque figure beside the short, mustachioed Sonny made for
Some terrible movies are near-misses, which actually could have been pretty good had one or two things about them turned out differently. Others earn the
Like its namesake magazine, the Heavy Metal movie was a strangely alluring mix of comic science fiction and dark erotica, underground fantasy and Arthurian campiness.
The Allman Brothers Band broke up again after Brothers of the Road, to some degree, because the times didn’t suit them anymore. “The ’80s saw
Like its slow-building title song, Isaac Hayes’ Shaft soundtrack took a while to achieve its reputation as a symphonic-funk masterpiece. He had broad access to
When former Warrant singer Jani Lane died on Aug. 11, 2011, at the age of 47, he left behind a complicated musical legacy that he himself repeatedly
How do you follow up a landmark rock opera like Tommy? If you’re the Who’s Pete Townshend, with another ambitious conceptual project. And what do
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