Billy Joel was about halfway through his eighth studio album, The Nylon Curtain, and sensing the creative strain. He turned that feeling into the album’s
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R.E.M.’s second album, 1984’s Reckoning, carried a curious phrase on the LP’s spine: “File Under Water.” It was a designation, an in-joke or even an alternate
Joe Elliott likes to call “Pour Some Sugar on Me” “the most important song” on Def Leppard’s fourth album, Hysteria, and “maybe the most important
Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption” solo popularized the tapping style of guitar playing, and in doing so revolutionized the sound of rock. Not bad for a
R.E.M.’s “Lightnin’ Hopkins” isn’t a song about the musician of the same name. Although the title of the third track on side two of Document
Two of rock’s most notorious personalities had to be separated by bodyguards when Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee and Kid Rock got into a fight on
Contrary to the popular narrative, grunge didn’t appear out of thin air and obliterate the ’80s hard rock zeitgeist overnight. But if there’s a single event that represented rock
Because of the running motif of fire on Document, singer Michael Stipe suggested that the phrase “File Under Fire” should be printed on the spine
Stardom was never on Bonnie Raitt’s radar. From the beginning of her career, she was mostly concerned with the craft of live performance. “I personally
By the second half of the ’60s, the Beatles had already made two films full of comical escapades and quick-witted mischief. Both 1964’s A Hard Day’s