By 1978, AC/DC had packed their relatively short, half-decade career with five albums and hundreds of concerts. For their strenuous efforts, they deservedly attained a
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Steve Martin had been honing his singularly silly stand-up act for a decade before the world truly caught on. That’s not surprising, as Martin’s comic

In order to assemble what became one of their earliest classics, Genesis had to blend the pastoral whimsy of their first couple of albums and

Viewers were greeted with an unexpected image on Oct. 14, 1978, when they tuned into Saturday Night Live. Instead of a grizzled rock band or

Saturday Night Live has had many controversial moments over more than four decades, but the sketch that unofficially holds the record for most complaints aired

One of rock’s most groundbreaking and ambitious albums, the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric Ladyland, arrived in stores on Oct. 16, 1968. In a way, humanity is

Former Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick nearly became the next great rock tragedy, while walking with a friend on Sunset Boulevard. Two stray bullets came within

A handful of British record stores took the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s new album from their shelves, just weeks after its arrival on Oct. 16, 1968.

Mention the word “supergroup,” and many rock fans think of big music manufactured by even bigger egos – like, say, Asia’s early-’80s hits. But one

The grunge revolution was in full swing by late 1993, and plenty of established rock acts found it difficult to draw the type of sales