When Top Gun blasted into theaters in 1986 it became a box office smash and sent Tom Cruise’s star soaring to new heights. If there
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ZZ Top’s Feb. 10, 1970, appearance outside of Houston provided a rather inauspicious beginning. Billy Gibbons had just added the final pieces – Dusty Hill
“The main aim is to play some rock ‘n’ roll and have some fun,” guitarist Jimmy Page once said of the Firm. He’d formed the
When John Lennon decided to settle in New York City in 1971, his song “Give Peace a Chance” was well-known to U.S. authorities. Approximately a quarter-million people sang it
In the late ’60s, Earth were just one of the many bands playing clubs in Birmingham, U.K., but then they wrote a song called “Black Sabbath”
“They’re nasty little birds, black and shiny. You see ’em by the side of the road, eating dead carcasses”: That’s how Black Crowes frontman Chris
It took just one album for Black Sabbath to earn their enduring status as fathers of heavy metal. Such was the power of the banshee
Fittingly released on Friday the 13th in February 1970, Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut album entwines dark, disturbing lyrics with heavy propulsive music freighted with gravitas
If Tommy announced the Who’s ascent to rock-band immortality, Live at Leeds was the headline’s exclamation point. The live album cemented their distinction as one
Linda Ronstadt’s solo career got off to a slow start, but she never looked back after “You’re No Good,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100