Built to capture the E Street live roar, The River became Springsteen’s split-personality classic: barroom blasts, bruised ballads, and “Hungry Heart.”
Browsing: album history
Bad Company recorded at Led Zeppelin’s Headley Grange and hit #1 in the US. Here’s how the debut became a hard-rock blueprint.
Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman turned teen tragedy, Broadway bombast, and hard rock into one immortal blockbuster. Here’s why it still hits hard.
Released in Feb 1972, Harvest turned Neil Young into a reluctant superstar. Here’s how Nashville, a barn, and one perfect single did it.
From a near-career wipeout to a technicolor takeover, here’s how She’s So Unusual was made, why it hit so hard, and what it changed forever.
Released in the US years late, Dirty Deeds still stormed the charts. Here’s why Bon Scott’s sleaziest classic became a blockbuster.
In 1975 the Eagles jumped from country-rock hopefuls to stadium kings. Inside One of These Nights, the brutal tour, and the beer that ended the original band.
How five rock legends stumbled into the Traveling Wilburys, cut two classic albums, refused to tour, and became the greatest band that never played live.
Inside the drug-fogged sessions, cult lyrics and long exile from print that turned Neil Young’s On the Beach into his most haunted, bizarre masterpiece.