Judas Priest was likely just appeasing a record label when they released a cover of Spooky Tooth’s “Better by You, Better Than Me” on Jan. 27,
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Television might not have sounded like a lot of the other CBGB bands, but its members were purely “punk” in their attitude. When it came
Bob Seger is closely associated with the music of Detroit, one of the great R&B centers in the U.S., but he was actually obsessed with
Fewer than 10 people witnessed the first live performances by Kiss on Jan. 30, 1973, at the Popcorn Club in Queens, N.Y. According to bassist
Def Leppard was primed for stardom following the release of their 1981 sophomore album High ‘n’ Dry, which earned the Sheffield quintet its first RIAA gold certification the following
Journey was coming off their biggest year ever when they started recording their eighth album, Frontiers. Their previous LP, 1981’s Escape, contained their best set
“Blinded by the Light” had disappeared into obscurity in the years after its release on Bruce Springsteen’s Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. Then Manfred Mann’s
The Soul Cages had turned into an intimate requiem for Sting’s father. Cathartic though it may have been, the 1990 LP left him searching for
Nobody expected Rob Halford to come out as gay when he sat down for a fateful MTV interview on Feb. 4, 1998 — least of
The producers of Wattstax had a problem when it came to the industry’s rating system. Intended for family audiences, their movie followed along as multiple