In typical New Jersey fashion, Bon Jovi avoided a public brouhaha when Richie Sambora left the band on April 2, 2013. But the wounds were still
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Dave Navarro’s four-and-a-half-year stint as the guitarist for Red Hot Chili Peppers came to an end on April 3, 1998. On paper, it was a
When ZZ Top released “Gimme All You Lovin’” as a single in April 1983, it loudly announced the band’s foray into synth-rock, a transition that
“Can’t You See” didn’t have the look of a career-defining song for the Marshall Tucker Band. Initially released in 1973, the song could get no
From the Tubes’ beginnings in 1972 through the end of that decade, they were among the most outrageous bands on the planet. A&M Records bankrolled the whole party
R.E.M. named their eighth album, 1992’s Automatic for the People, after a slogan employed by Weaver D’s, a joint in their hometown of Athens, Ga.,
Just a year before, David Bowie proposed. The scene – you had Bowie on one knee, singing the old standard “April in Paris” to supermodel
The first time Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen heard “The Flame,” in 1987, he ripped the songwriters’ cassette out of the boom box it was playing
“She’s a Beauty” was the Tubes’ only Top 10 hit – and that was quite an achievement for the former art rockers from San Francisco. They’d
Poison may not have had the credibility or the chops of their peers, but they made up for their deficiencies with an unquenchable desire for stardom and