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How Billy Joel’s 1980 album Glass Houses shattered his soft-rock image, delivered his first No.1 single, and still sounds sharper than his critics.
How Van Halen turned a Los Angeles high school into MTV’s most notorious classroom, with bikini teachers, censorship scares and hidden gags.
Inside Toby Keith’s strangest Christmas song, a tender dad-and-daughter story co-written with Keith Urban that quietly skewers Santa, shopping and modern faith.
How Ann Wilson and Jerry Cantrell turned a Rock Hall victory lap into a raw, unsettling wake for Chris Cornell with one devastating song.
Inside the moment Tom Waits traded his beatnik barfly act for junkyard avant-blues, pushed by Kathleen Brennan, a record collection, and a career meltdown.
Tom Waits’ wild tribute to Keith Richards shows what it really means for music to ‘love you back’ – and why the Human Riff still treats guitar as mystery.
Jeff Beck’s own words on Jimi Hendrix and John McLaughlin reveal how listening, humility and fusion records like Jack Johnson reshaped his guitar playing.
Albert Collins loved Grant Green and Wes Montgomery, not fast scales. How his groove-first philosophy rewired blues guitar and what it means for players.
At 18, Kim Wilde thought she was heading for art school and session work, not global fame. Here is how she was discovered and the songs that made her an icon.