Journey was coming off their biggest year ever when they started recording their eighth album, Frontiers. Their previous LP, 1981’s Escape, contained their best set
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“Blinded by the Light” had disappeared into obscurity in the years after its release on Bruce Springsteen’s Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. Then Manfred Mann’s
The Soul Cages had turned into an intimate requiem for Sting’s father. Cathartic though it may have been, the 1990 LP left him searching for
Nobody expected Rob Halford to come out as gay when he sat down for a fateful MTV interview on Feb. 4, 1998 — least of
The producers of Wattstax had a problem when it came to the industry’s rating system. Intended for family audiences, their movie followed along as multiple
Bryan Adams did not hit the big time in the U.S. overnight. He earned his stripes in his native Canada with a 1980 self-titled debut,
With more than 30 million copies sold worldwide, Metallica’s 1991 self-titled album is practically a greatest-hits compilation unto itself. Perhaps none of its 12 tracks are as important as
Living Colour found mainstream success in the back half of the ’80s. “Cult of Personality,” from the band’s 1988 debut, Vivid, was a commercial and critical
Lenny Kravitz admitted in 1993 that the American press had never really known what to make of him. “Well, it’s changing now,” he told Rick Rubin
Eric Clapton’s family life has been a series of jarring, heartbreaking surprises. He grew up thinking his grandparents were his mom and dad, and that