Rock and Culture Anniversaries

"Babe" went to No. 1, but elsewhere this album provided an opportunity to stretch their songwriting talents.

He'd lost his wife to cancer, then vowed to take an extended break to deal with the excruciating loss.

After a lengthy period of sometimes confusing experimentalism, he was firing on all cylinders once more.

They returned less than a year after 'Outlandos d'Amour' with a better sense of where the music was headed.

This album is perhaps rightly separated by "You Really Got Me" and songs that are not "You Really Got Me."

They were moving beyond the prickly rawness that had already created an international phenomenon.

To this point, they'd only managed modest hits with "Showdown" and a cover of "Roll Over Beethoven."

For one last shining moment, they were themselves again.

Like most of his solo albums, this one came with its fair share of bumps along the way.

They scored a career-defining smash with 1976's 'Hotel California,' then spent years trying to figure out how to follow it.