Category: History

When Judas Priest released their 11th album on May 17, 1988, few people outside of the band’s inner circle had an inkling that they were

It really was a dark and stormy night in 1977 when guitarist Mark Knopfler popped into a tumbledown bar in London and happened upon some

Paul Simon booked four days at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama while working on his third album, 1973’s There Goes Rhymin’ Simon. He figured that

The Police had a romantic intent for “Every Breath You Take,” before it took a darker turn. The song’s lyrics ended up exploring the consuming,

By the early ’80s, ZZ Top had firmly established themselves as kings of rock ‘n’ roll boogie. They’d released a string of well-received records that

“Sober” marked Tool’s breakthrough to mainstream audiences, but its origin could be traced back several years earlier. In the late ‘80s Maynard James Keenan was fronting

The first single from Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town became a tale of two versions shortly after its release. “Prove It All

Changing lead singers midstream tends to have an adverse effect on most rock bands, but Van Halen topped the charts with 1986’s 5150 after original

Led Zeppelin was fine-tuning “Over the Hills and Far Away” at live concerts through 1972, long before it appeared on Houses of the Holy. The creation

Rod Stewart had decided to move away from the mechanical sounds of his ’80s-era albums long before he taped one of MTV’s best-loved episodes of