15 Years Ago: Billy Joel Gets Classical on ‘Fantasies and Delusions’
It had been eight years since Billy Joel had released his last pop and rock album, 1993’s River of Dreams.
35 Years Ago: The Rolling Stones Start Big, Bright American ‘Tattoo You’ Tour
The Rolling Stones' '81 tour found the band evolving. Gone were the dark days of ’70s, replaced by the bright colors and arena spectacle of the ’80s.
5 Years Ago: Alice Cooper Releases ‘Welcome 2 My Nightmare’
Three and a half decades after Alice Cooper went solo in style with Welcome to My Nightmare, the shock rocker returned to the realm of Steven, the underworld and bad dreams.
22 Best Rock Album Sequels
We explore rock’s most memorable second (and sometimes third and fourth) chapters.
40 Years Ago: Bob Dylan Documents the Rolling Thunder Revue on ‘Hard Rain’
For a long time, Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue was remembered poorly. The 1975-76 tour mostly got a bad reputation because of the live album 'Hard Rain.'
40 Years Ago: Stills-Young Band Releases ‘Long May You Run’
'Long May Your Run,' released on Sept. 10, 1976, marked the only time that Neil Young and Stephen Stills worked as a duo.
20 Years Ago: Van Halen Reunite With David Lee Roth on MTV
When host Dennis Miller announced reunited members of Van Halen, the crowd at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards went crazy.
40 Years Ago: Producer Lou Adler Is Kidnapped and Held for Ransom
Lou Adler got one hell of a wake-up call on Sept. 1, 1976.
35 Years Ago: Bob Dylan Releases ‘Shot of Love’
Shot of Love is widely considered the last installment of Dylan’s “born-again” trilogy, yet the 1981 album found him already transitioning out of his religious phase.
50 Years Ago: John Lennon Apologizes for ‘More Popular Than Jesus’ Comment
On the precipice of a 1966 U.S. tour, the Beatles had a problem.