How The Human League’s ‘Don’t You Want Me’ went from album filler to 1981’s Christmas No.1, Virgin’s first UK chart-topper and a synth pop watershed.
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Long before Taylor Swift, Debbie Gibson was a teenage composer-producer turning garage demos into platinum hits and rewriting the rules of 80s pop.
From Bangladesh and SNACK to The Last Waltz, Farm Aid and Hyde Park, the tangled collaborations of Dylan, Neil Young and Eric Clapton quietly rewired classic rock.
The Friends theme made The Rembrandts household names, wrecked their indie cred and hid a surprisingly strong catalog. Here is what they did beyond four handclaps.
How Susanna Hoffs went from LA art student and punk fan to founding guitarist and voice of The Bangles, reshaping 80s pop with jangle and attitude.
In early 1978, Van Halen jumped from LA clubs to a world tour almost overnight. Here’s how their first Aragon Ballroom set lit the fuse on arena rock.
How Sara Evans turned small-town heartbreak into Cheatin’, one of country music’s sharpest cheating anthems, with a story, meaning and scandal to match.
Inside the barely documented 1970 Syracuse gig where Derek & The Dominos, Duane Allman and a young Elton John turned a half-full war memorial into a once-in-a-lifetime guitar summit.
In 1978 Linda Ronstadt crashed the Rolling Stones stage, rewrote a macho anthem and sparked rumors with Mick Jagger. Here is what really happened.
Inside Dylan’s London folk epiphany, Italian heartbreak and the tangled love triangle behind “Girl From the North Country.”