Jeff Giles and Matt Wardlaw

George Thorogood and the Destroyers seemed like unlikely candidates for a breakout hit in 1982.

Foreigner ended the '80s as one of rock's most successful acts — and then they lost singer Lou Gramm to a solo career, forcing founder Mick Jones to start over for the band's seventh studio album.

The Doobie Brothers stared down a crisis prior to the sessions for their sixth studio album, making a fateful personnel decision.

Ted Nugent, Tommy Shaw, Jack Blades, Michael Cartellone, Ron Nevison and John Kalodner discuss the short-lived supergroup Damn Yankees.

After the Eagles dissolved in 1980, Joe Walsh quickly got to work on his next solo project.

We spoke with Frank Hannon and Jeff Keith about the band's unlikely 1990 smash.

This marked his third solo release since leaving Van Halen in 1996.

After breaking up in the mid-'80s, Styx, without Tommy Shaw, got back together in October 1990 for 'Edge of the Century.'

On record, the James Gang excelled at wresting rock 'n' roll glory from the jaws of seemingly certain chaos.

Loverboy perfected a multi-platinum formula with its first three albums, each of which cracked the Top 20 in the U.S. as well as the band's native Canada. With their fourth release, 1985's Lovin' Every Minute of It, they changed things up.