Recording engineer Chris Thomas received a note on Sept. 9, 1968 from producer George Martin saying: “Chris, hope you had a nice holiday. I’m off
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In the Beatles’ early days, John Lennon and Paul McCartney often gave songs to their friends. That’s what happened when they wrote “I Wanna Be
The Rolling Stones broke a 10-year history of clean, upstanding living on Sept. 10, 1973 when the BBC announced that “Star Star” was banned on
As the World Trade Center towers fell on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, new albums by Bob Dylan, Nickelback and Slayer were being put on
Metallica attempted to correct the heavy metal universe’s cosmic balance on Sept. 12, 2008, with their ninth studio album. Death Magnetic doubled as musical homecoming
David Bowie’s multiplatinum album Let’s Dance feels like a commercial release today, only because the LP sold so well. Back then, this canny new blend of R&B-soaked dance
“There are no second acts in American lives,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his unfinished, posthumously published novel The Last Tycoon. But Meat Loaf proved
Richard Wright was in the midst of a comeback alongside his Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour before cancer claimed his life on Sept. 15, 2008. The
Jim Morrison made a career of nodding off at inopportune moments. He passed out when the rest of the Doors were expecting him in the
Kiss’ simultaneously released 1978 solo albums were partially designed to help keep an unhappy Peter Criss in the band. The plan didn’t work. They were