Journey could rightly be compared to a shooting star. They made nearly 20 trips into the Billboard Top 40, and all but two of them happened in the ’80s. Which ones didn’t? The double-platinum Steve Perry-sung single “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin,’” their first-ever Top 40 hit, reached No. 16 in the fall of 1979. The million-selling […]
Paul McCartney began the ’80s in much the same position as he’d entered the ’70s: He released a home-recorded solo album after a blockbuster band had broken up. Wings had been the portrait of pop-rock consistency in the prior decade, as all 23 of their singles reached the U.S. Top 40. McCartney’s post-Beatles group would […]
Cher and Joni Mitchell were among the stars who joined Cyndi Lauper Saturday night at the Hollywood Bowl for the final concert of her farewell tour. You can see the complete set list for the show below, as well as video of Cher trading verses with Lauper on the show-closing “Girls Just Want to Have […]
When Vinny Appice played his first show with Black Sabbath on Aug. 31, 1980, at Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium, the 22-year-old drummer brought a steady hand and calming presence to the beleaguered metal veterans. They’d already endured a tumultuous, albeit successful, year to that point. After years of increasingly drug-addled dysfunction and dwindling album sales, Black […]
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, the upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic starring Jeremy Allen White, is set to be released later this year. But on Friday, the film was premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, resulting in the first critic reviews of the highly-anticipated release. Most of the reviews can be described as positive, […]
A previously unseen live video of John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band performing “Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)” from 1972 has been released. The clip was unveiled on the 53rd anniversary of the couple’s famous One to One Concerts at Madison Square Garden. It premiered on the same date and time […]
The line between country and rock has long been flexible. If you consider, for example, the catalogs of artists like Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Eagles, the Grateful Dead, the Flying Burrito Brothers or the Byrds, to name a few, you’ll find that they were as comfortable pulling influences from Hank Williams as they were Chuck Berry. […]
When Oasis unexpectedly reunited in 2024, one of the biggest questions the Gallagher brothers posed – or perhaps it was a challenge – to American audiences was whether they loved them all along. Which, in all honesty, is fair. Following the band’s roaring start following two, in Liam Gallagher’s words, “biblical” albums that require little […]
Neil Young has shared a new song, “Big Crime,” in opposition to President Donald Trump’s recent deployment of the National Guard and ICE agents in Washington, D.C. President Trump announced the deployment decision earlier this month, a move purportedly intended to aid local law enforcement in controlling crime. According to reporting by The Hill, since then nearly […]
John Fogerty finds it pretty funny that President Trump doesn’t seem to get the irony of playing “Fortunate Son” at his political events. In a new interview with Vulture, Fogerty was asked what he thinks his most misunderstood song is. His answer was “Fortunate Son,” which, he explained, is often assumed to be something it’s […]