Cheap Trick released one of the all-time great debut albums and its terrific follow-up in a span of less than six months. The group then delivered
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There’s no great secret about what “Black and Blue,” the first single from Van Halen’s 1988 OU812 album, is about. “Oh, yeah, that’s sex –

It’s a long way between “Kyrie” and Kiss, a bit like the gap between mercy and mayhem, divinity and “Deuce.” But the title track from

Krokus managed to eke out two gold albums and tour the world as a fearsome opening act and low-level headliner during their brief heyday in

Vince Neil drew first musical blood against his then-estranged Motley Crue band mates, beating them into record stores by nearly a year with the April

Stealers Wheel was as surprised as anyone else when “Stuck in the Middle With You” became an international hit after its release in April 1973.

In the strange world of Hollywood, sometimes films fail when they really shouldn’t and sometimes the most famous thing about them – like the nodding-man

When the second Men at Work album arrived on April 29, 1983, it did so amid great expectations. The Australian pop-rock quintet’s debut title Business

Kevin Cronin still remembers creating “Roll With the Changes” “like it was yesterday,” calling it “a pivotal song in the career of REO Speedwagon.” Released

For roughly three decades, Tom Petty couldn’t quite shake the feeling that he had unfinished business to attend to. That unfinished business was Mudcrutch, Petty’s