Before MTV, Cyndi Lauper spent the 70s in rough clubs, cover bands and lawsuits. Here is how those lost years forged her sound and her fury.
From $10 tickets and quad PAs to drugs, danger and pure musical magic, here is what going to concerts in the 1970s actually felt like.
Inside Ringo Starr’s two very different weddings: the rushed 1965 ceremony that enraged Beatlemania and the star‑studded 1981 Marylebone party that may have saved his life.
How John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, Alice Cooper and Micky Dolenz turned a Rainbow Bar loft into the Hollywood Vampires – and nearly drank themselves into legend.
From sandlot baseball to bleeding fingers and a “stepchild” genre, Buddy Guy shows how one John Lee Hooker riff turned into a lifelong fight for the blues.
How a Dublin school crush survived fame, rumors and four kids to become one of rock’s strangest, strongest marriages.
Before stadiums and schoolboy uniforms, Angus Young was a teenage firebrand in Kantuckee. Here is what we really know about that loud, half-mythical 1972 era.
How a three week old Zowie turned Angie and David Bowie’s open, strategic marriage into rock’s strangest family act during the making of Hunky Dory.
How a Texas teen who hated the blues economy cut dozens of pop singles, then surrendered to his true obsession and rewired slide guitar forever.
Neil Young says today’s listener only hears 5 percent of the music and that modern rock is Perry Como in leather pants. Is he actually right?