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These rock bands from the 1980s have been largely forgotten by most genre fans but deserve to be rediscovered.
Get ready for a musical time warp! We’re celebrating songs turning 40 in 2025—tracks released in 1985 that continue to make ...
These forgotten rock bands from the 1980s deserve a lot more love, even if they formed and disbanded in the same decade.
On July 13, 1985, music legends on both sides of the Atlantic came together for a cause — raising funds for famine relief in ...
Kool & the Gang member Michael Sumler has died in a car crash in Mableton, Georgia. "Chicago Mike," who became part of the ...
Hang on Sloopy has been a staple of Ohio State football since 1965. Guitarist Rick Derringer, who helped give fans the famed ...
Guitarist and singer Rick Derringer, who shot to fame at 17 when his band The McCoys recorded "Hang On Sloopy," had a hit ...
Rick Derringer, a fiery guitaris, lead singer of 'Hang on Sloopy' and writer of 'Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo' and 'Real ...
Scotland’s Simple Minds was big in the U.K. and Europe with six successful albums, but it was the No. 1 hit “Don’t You ...
Led by the stunning She Sells Sanctuary, Love was the sound of a band experimenting at scale, finding the great enabler in ...
The critically acclaimed “72 Seasons” came out in 2023, which is when this tour in support of it began. The majority of the docket sees singer/guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist ...
In 1985, classic rock radio station 102.5 WDVE started a tradition of playing a countdown of the top 500 best rock songs over Memorial Day weekend. For the most part, their way of formulating that ...