After honing their harmonies and polishing their country-rock grooves for half a decade, the Eagles scored a career-defining smash with 1976’s Hotel California – and
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By the end of the ’70s, punk was already getting tired of the template it had laid out for itself just a few years earlier.
Like most of John Lennon’s solo albums, Walls and Bridges came with its share of bumps along the way. And like much of Lennon’s work starting around
When U2’s debut release, Three, arrived on Sept. 26, 1979, it marked the band’s third attempt at sounding convincing in the studio. And they were
The Beatles’ Abbey Road album is perhaps best known for the eight-song medley that defines Side Two. Known during the sessions as “The Long One,”
In early January 1969, following the fractious White Album sessions, the Beatles were determined to get back to their roots recording as a unit. But
Elton John began a North American leg of a world tour in mid-September 1979 that included a 10-date stint at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.
Going into the mid-’70s, the Electric Light Orchestra had managed only modest hits with “Showdown” and a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven.” If
U2’s fourth album arrived just a little more than a year and a half after its punky predecessor War became a surprise platinum-selling hit. On
The Kinks’ self-titled debut album is perhaps rightly separated by “You Really Got Me” and songs that are not “You Really Got Me.” Released on