In February 1989, the Replacements appeared on the cover of Musician Magazine with a headline crowning them “The Last, Best Band of the ‘80s.” The
Category: History
Revisiting Tom Petty’s Epic Run at San Francisco’s Fillmore
Talking Heads Started Small With ‘Love Goes to Building on Fire’
When a band gets its first No. 1 single, it’s a moment to celebrate. But for Mr. Big, the chart-topping success of “To Be With You,” which
With Van Halen’s final single, 2012’s “She’s the Woman,” the band finished where it started. The thumping rock song was first recorded by the group back in
Fans of Eric Burdon and the Animals lost their temper on March 1, 1967, when a show failed to go ahead – then later marched
Bob Dylan’s relationship with women over the years has been shrouded in mystery and pretty clear in his songwriting. From tenderly understanding songs like 1963’s “Don’t
Stevie Wonder’s Music of My Mind is more important than it was necessarily transcendent, more representative of where he’d go than any real chart benchmark.
On Sept. 18, 1976, Queen staged a massive thank-you to their English fans by staging a free concert at London’s Hyde Park. Between 150,000 and
John Belushi’s death on March 5, 1982, was as shocking as, in retrospect, it now seems inevitable. Belushi, who’d rocketed to television superstardom as one