History has consigned Elton John’s 16th studio album, Jump Up!, to also-ran status. Biographer Philip Norman dismissed it as “rather static and unenergized.” In his
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R.E.M. built a following partly through their defiantly anti-commercial stance during the image-driven ’80s, so it may have come as something of a surprise when
30 Years Ago: XTC’s Struggles Continue on Lush, Ignored ‘Nonsuch’
The Los Angeles riots broke out in Tom Petty’s adopted hometown the same day he returned from a European tour in 1992. “We got back,”
On April 29, 1992 a jury acquitted four police officers who had been accused of violently beating Rodney King. The decision sent shockwaves through Los
40 Years Ago: Metallica’s Five-Piece Lineup Plays Their Only Show
Led Zeppelin were no strangers to record-setting stadium concerts by spring 1977. But even by their standards, their mammoth performance at the Pontiac Silverdome near Detroit was
Few artists have ever been on a roll like Stevie Wonder was from 1972-80, the era chronicled on Stevie Wonder’s Original Musiquarium I. During that
The Beatles never released a live album while they were still together, though it wasn’t for lack of trying. The group’s meteoric rise in fame
On May 4, 1982, Duran Duran released the first single from Rio, “Hungry Like the Wolf.” The song would become one of their signature tunes