The Beat’s most enduring song came not from a place of inspiration, but immaturity. Dave Wakeling, the group’s singer and guitarist, wrote “Save It for Later” before
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Almost every band that achieves superstardom has a definable turning point in its career, where it goes from being just another band to a phenomenon. For Kings of
So much of the immediate praise surrounding the Rolling Stones’ hodge-podge Tattoo You album was colored by the era. Same with “Hang Fire.” The band
By early 1972, ZZ Top had already become a great live band. With their second album, Rio Grande Mud, they began to learn how to
The pre-bearded ZZ Top’s second album, Rio Grande Mud, arrived on April 4, 1972, at the beginning of their climb to global success. Already, they
How Alice in Chains Have Endured Since Layne Staley’s Death
Graham Nash recalls that the pairing of himself and David Crosby back in the early ’70s, outside Crosby, Stills & Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young,
The Go-Go’s were an anomaly in the late-’70s Los Angeles punk scene. An all-female band playing instruments? Such a thing was practically unheard of, and even
Captain James T. Kirk didn’t often endure unhappy endings before the first generation of Star Trek movies arrived. He did, however, in “The City on
Whitesnake’s Self-Titled Album: Beyond ‘Still of the Night’