Back in their ’60s public school days, the founding members of Genesis fancied themselves as pop songwriters — aiming to operate in the shadows, penning
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What is life after death like? If you’re Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan, it involves still playing arenas. But since May 28, 1996, when he was
Marvin Gaye actually revealed himself as more than the typical Motown factory drone well before 1971’s What’s Going On. He just hadn’t quite harnessed those ambitions
George Harrison’s No. 2 hit “All Those Years Ago” arrived on May 11, 1981, as a heartfelt tribute to his late bandmate John Lennon, who’d
Tom Petty was ready to duke it out on the final episode of Garry Shandling’s The Larry Sanders Show, which aired 23 years ago on May 31,
The solo acts, the side projects, the supergroups: the Genesis tree has many branches. Not all of these records earned much fanfare but most have been
Van Halen took a year off after the tour in support of OU812 and then needed another year away to put together a follow-up album. And even though the
“I suppose in a way we invented MTV,” George Harrison casually noted in the Beatles’ 2000 Anthology book, reflecting on the band’s low-key promo clips
The lean, tune-focused Zoom was the Electric Light Orchestra album that Jeff Lynne should have put out at the turn of the ’80s, as he
If there is ever a Hall of Fame of ’80s Cultural Life, the date June 12, 1981 will have a display all of its own.