Warren Zevon needed a vacation in the late ’70s. He was working on his third album, Excitable Boy, which would finally bring him some long-overdue commercial success. Before
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As Queen’s self-titled debut album shows, the band we all know and love today, the group with the multi-layered vocals and ringing guitar notes, didn’t start out
Two disparate sources of inspiration influenced Billy Joel’s 1983 hit “Tell Her About It”: Christie Brinkley and the Supremes. The first’s impact was pretty obvious.
A member of the Who and two Sex Pistols walk into a bar … It sounds like the setup to a joke, but Pete Townshend found himself in
The early ’70s took their toll on quite a number of rock’s biggest acts. The combination of artistic ambition, family life, the demands of stardom,
Robert Plant knew that he would have to prove himself after Led Zeppelin. Despite being one of the world’s most famous frontmen, Plant also knew that
When Slash and Duff McKagan walked offstage following Guns N’ Roses’ July 17, 1993, concert in Buenos Aires, they had no idea it would be their
Paul Simon wanted to release a gospel song for years. “I was interested in gospel music when I wrote [1970’s] ‘Keep the Customer Satisfied,’ that started
The show was held at the Westfield School in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, and they were paid only five pounds, but July 18, 1978, was
The Grateful Dead’s self-titled debut album from 1967 was a casserole of folk, rock, blues and psychedelia. But it didn’t quite capture the live experience.