After their 1980 debut failed to turn many heads, Huey Lewis and the News needed a hit, plain and simple. Luckily, the harmonica-toting vocalist had
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Stevie Wonder was completing a lengthy journey when he hit No. 1 on Jan. 22, 1977 with “I Wish,” his funky ode to the innocence
Why John Belushi Started an ‘SNL’ Episode in a Wheelchair
Politician R. Budd Dwyer died by suicide on Jan. 22, 1987, in front of an audience of TV news cameras. Eight years later, the incident
No one said rock and roll was a safe sport. Patti Smith learned this the hard way. On Jan. 23, 1977, New York’s reigning queen of punk
Aretha Franklin was undoubtedly the Queen of Soul when she released her 18th album, Young, Gifted and Black, at the start of 1972. But she was the
45 Years Ago: Hall and Oates Notch First No. 1 With ‘Rich Girl’
Comedic magic in movies can be as hard to generate as a bolt of lightning, and even more difficult to replicate. But that never stops
Nevermind fused Nirvana’s cool reputation with widespread critical acclaim. The 1991 album was instantly popular, bumping Michael Jackson‘s Dangerous from the top of the Billboard charts and selling
The B-52’s weren’t prepared to capitalize on their earliest successes. A 1979 self-titled album and 1980’s Wild Planet had used up all of their pre-existing