It took 25 years, but Aerosmith finally scored a No. 1 single, replacing Brandy and Monica‘s “The Boy Is Mine” at the top spot on
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“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” is an anthem for women around the world, but, surprisingly, Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 No. 2 hit wasn’t written by a woman.

Elton John has earned a ton of money, and he’s bought a ton of things with it. Back in September 1988, he had so many

Recording engineer Chris Thomas received a note on Sept. 9, 1968 from producer George Martin saying: “Chris, hope you had a nice holiday. I’m off

In the Beatles’ early days, John Lennon and Paul McCartney often gave songs to their friends. That’s what happened when they wrote “I Wanna Be

The Rolling Stones broke a 10-year history of clean, upstanding living on Sept. 10, 1973 when the BBC announced that “Star Star” was banned on

As the World Trade Center towers fell on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, new albums by Bob Dylan, Nickelback and Slayer were being put on

Metallica attempted to correct the heavy metal universe’s cosmic balance on Sept. 12, 2008, with their ninth studio album. Death Magnetic doubled as musical homecoming

David Bowie’s multiplatinum album Let’s Dance feels like a commercial release today, only because the LP sold so well. Back then, this canny new blend of R&B-soaked dance

“There are no second acts in American lives,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his unfinished, posthumously published novel The Last Tycoon. But Meat Loaf proved