Madonna was asked about her goals in the early stages of recording her debut album. “I want to rule the world,” she responded. Amazingly, she
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Any musician with an illustrious, decade-spanning career is bound to rack up some regrets along the way. Rod Stewart was no exception, and he parlayed his
On July 28, 1973, an estimated 600,000 people crammed into the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway in Central New York State. This beat Woodstock, which drew around 400,000.
Led Zeppelin had more than $200,000 in cash stolen on July 29, 1973, from a safety-deposit box at their New York City hotel. Hardly a
ZZ Top unlocked a potent, universal truth with their 1983 smash “Sharp Dressed Man”: Sharpness isn’t a one-size-fits-all aesthetic, but a state of being. This came
Grand Funk Railroad were huge during the first half of the ’70s. Every album they released between 1969 and 1975 went either gold or platinum, and
Steely Dan became unlikely hitmakers with their debut album, Can’t Buy a Thrill, but they refused to retread familiar ground on their sophomore LP, Countdown to Ecstasy, released in July
As Jackson Browne prepared to release his sixth studio album, he was at the peak of his pop success. His previous LP, 1980’s Hold Out,
Few clubs are as associated with one band’s rise to stardom as Liverpool’s Cavern Club is with the Beatles. On Aug. 3, 1963, they played
The former Little Stevie Wonder had long since dropped that child star-era prefix from his name. Still, Innervisions, with its very adult themes, was where