Released November 1979, ZZ Top Deguello (“dee GWAY oh”, Spanish for “no quarter, no mercy” ) contained the timeless “Cheap Sunglasses”,”I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide”, the sublime blues “A Fool for Your ...

With the mothership infamously waiting for Hell to freeze over, Eagles singer/songwriter/drummer Don Henley recovered impressively from an unremarkable first solo attempt with his second, November ...

Confident by then in newly-found sobriety, supported by veteran producer Russ Titelman and a superb band, Eric Clapton chose arguably his strongest songs to interpret in decades including his “Bad ...

( Nick Mason (l) with David Gilmour ). The backwaters of The Endless River saga run deep and the tributaries feeding it are many, and Gilmour and Mason do a very comprehensive job here in my classic ...

Because I was on the radio during the late Seventies at ROCK 103, I distinctly remember practically every major touring band that came through Memphis then, home of ZZ Top recording mecca Ardent ...

We are sad to report that founding bassist and songwriter Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead passed away at age 84. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/arts/music/phil ...

Though barely ten months had passed between the inauspicious releases of their debut and followup in 1969, so much had transpired in that time with the band- and the world- that by the time Led ...

Reckless became in effect a greatest hits collection for Bryan Adams, spinning off SIX Top 20 hits including “One Night Love Affair”, “Run to You”, “Somebody”, “Summer of ’69”, “Heaven”, and “It’s ...

Three of the four surviving members of Led Zeppelin plus John Bonham’s son Jason on drums decided to “Ramble On”to the stage at London’s O2 Arena back in November 2007 in order to raise money for a ...

“We did over two hundred takes on ‘Refugee’. We never thought that we had ‘Refugee’ as well as it should be. I hope I never have to go through that again!” exclaimed the late Tom Petty to me in my ...

With the stunning 1974 release Crime of the Century a half century ago, London’s Supertramp suddenly exhibited a consistency of band sound, eschewing the ubiquitous electric guitar and the obligatory ...