Alt-rock band Styx was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1972. The group’s name is taken from a river in Greek mythology that ran through the underworld. The group reached popularity during the late 1970s and early 80s. The group is best remembered for its unique style of music, which incorporated hard rock and acoustic guitar…
Without their fans, rock stars would still be living in their parent’s basement, eating packet noodles and praying for the day someone hands them a record contract. So you’d think they’d go out of their way to show some appreciation. Most of the time, they do. But as it turns out, even rock music stars…
Boston frontman Tom Scholz spent six long years tinkering away on songs in his basement, braving rejection and humiliation as he tried to win a record deal. Finally, he did. Boston subsequently went on to become one of the biggest rock bands of the 1970s, selling over 17 million copies of their debut album alone…
Creedence Clearwater Revival was founded in El Cerrito, California, in 1967. According to IMDB, the inspiration for the group’s name came from a few different things. Credence Nuvall was a friend of John Fogerty. Someone in the band once saw a beer commercial that promoted using clear water. The group added revival to their name…
Charlie Benante is an American musician. He should be best-known to most people because of his role as the drummer for the band Anthrax. However, Benante has been involved in other projects as well, with an excellent example being his involvement in Stormtroopers of Death. 1. Born in the Bronx Benante was born in the…
Punk may not have been the cultural phenomenon in the US that it was in the UK, but it still managed to inspire a bunch of up-and-coming new bands. Blondie was one of them. Formed in the mid-1970s, they took the thrashing guitars, hold no prisoners attitude, and hard-edged melodies of punk, added some gloss,…
John Lennon gave us some of the most sublime songs of the 20th century. He also gave us Imagine, a song that was not, as some people say, killed by ubiquity, but that committed Harakiri by its own tedious hand. But we’ll forgive him that. We’ll also forgive him for bowing out of music for…
In 1970, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon decided to get together and form a band. They might not have realized it at the time, but they were about to change the face of popular music forever. The most commercially successful band in history, Queen has sold over 300 million records, influenced…
Over the course of a career spanning four decades, Linda Ronstadt has turned her hand to everything. Country, rock’n’roll, jazz, opera, Broadway standards, big band, Mariachi… you name it, she’s tried it, and by and large, the results have been masterful. Since starting out in the 1960s as the lead singer of the folk-rock trio,…