Quiet Riot nearly sabotaged their shot at stardom when they entered the studio to record a career-defining cover of Slade’s “Cum on Feel the Noize.”
Category: History
Duran Duran’s “Is There Something I Should Know?” arrived as a stand-alone song on March 14, 1983, and quickly became their first No. 1 single
David Bowie was in the mood to try something different as the early ’80s unfolded. He’d been listening to R&B and blues records while on
REO Speedwagon was an anomaly in the music industry for most of the ’70s: They got radio play and sold out arenas and even stadiums
Those who think culture is bizarre and entertaining today should really go back to some of the bonkers things that happened in the ’80s. As
Iron Maiden reached all-new levels of conceptual, progressive grandiosity on their seventh album, the aptly titled Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. But they hadn’t forgotten how
It’s no surprise that Wings’ synthy hit single “With a Little Luck” has a yacht-rock vibe or that Paul McCartney’s group feels suddenly airy and
There’s more to U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday” than meets the eye. On the surface, the song addresses the “Bloody Sunday” of Jan. 30, 1972, when British
U2 has developed a reputation for risk over the decades. As their stage architect, Mark Fisher, put it in 1999, “U2 is definitely not frightened to try
War was, in many ways, the moment in which U2 found the collective will to push back. Fearlessly political, its songs took on the looming