Category: History

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

A Stooges reunion and new band music were the last things the late Ron Asheton expected back in the early ’00s. “I was kind of

Van Halen had trouble bringing the song “Right Now” to completion, but that was nothing compared to the struggles they had with Sammy Hagar while

Lenny Kravitz and Slash banged out “Always on the Run” during a whirlwind, daylong jam session, but depending on whom you ask — and when you ask them —