Rock and Culture Anniversaries

Like many albums in his extensive discography, this one didn't start the way it ended up.

He orchestrated this departure with a familiar sense of mystery and panache.

They were already at a crossroads after just one jammy studio project.

Future hit actually began life along a lonesome country highway outside Montgomery, Alabama.

This was more than a kiss-off to the Beatles. It was his demolition of everything the previous decade stood for.

They reached No. 1 in the U.K. just days after its release, then matched that feat in the U.S.

Their frontman's death wasn't the end of the band's classic era. Instead, it was 'Made in Heaven.'

This nationally broadcast reunion was as emotionally resonant for fans as it was brief for the participants.

Gone were the conventional verse-chorus-bridge structures of their earliest successes.

He'd ultimately save the group.