Being booked as a musical performer on Saturday Night Live has always been a gamble. While SNL‘s initial variety-show approach to late-night live TV has
Category: History
When Led Zeppelin broke up in 1980, Robert Plant was left to answer a complicated question: What do you do when you have already reached the
When talking about R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People, bassist and keyboardist Mike Mills claimed the band recorded its 1992 album “in the four corners of the
INXS closed out their world tour on Sept. 27, 1997, with a headlining show at the Star Lake Amphitheater in Burgettstown, Penn. The Australian band
Two emblematic figures of the 20th century met for the first time on Sept. 27, 1997: One was Bob Dylan, and the other was Pope John
“Sweetness Follows” is the centerpiece of R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People, filling that role both logistically (it’s the sixth track of 12) and thematically. Rock
Ozzy Osbourne has a checkered history with animals. There was the infamous time he bit off the head of a bat, a similar incident involving
There’s a famous quote from a movie. No, it’s not from a Montgomery Clift film (that would be a little too perfect), but it did
“Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true!” So said Aesop’s Fables, and so learned Stone Temple Pilots after the release of their multiplatinum
Alice Cooper wasn’t keen on squandering his new lease on life after roaring back with 1986’s Constrictor, and he quickly followed up the career-rejuvenating LP with Raise Your Fist and Yell, released