Michael McDonald was part of Steely Dan for a period in the 1970s, providing backing and lead vocals, as well as keyboards, for performances and recordings. In 1975, The Doobie Brothers came calling.
Read MoreBlink-182 was totally different when the band first started. As what will surely come as a surprise to many, Travis Barker wasn't the band's first drummer.
Read MoreThe Beatles wrote some of the best songs in music history. Everyone has their favorite and least favorite tunes — even the band members.
Read MoreElvis Presley gave the world an enormous catalog of recorded music. This is the story of his favorite song.
Read MoreThe night was October 16, 1966, and the venue was the much-beloved Fillmore West concert venue in San Francisco. Also soon-to-be-much-beloved was the new woman singing lead for Jefferson Airplane, a former floor model for the I Magnin department stores named Grace Slick.
Read MoreSteely Dan's Walter Becker "had the gift of relative anonymity in a field where celebrity can do incalculable damage."
Read MoreThe soulfulness and seriousness of George Michael's art hinted at a man who dealt with profound sadness, misery, and heartbreak. This is his tragic story.
Read MoreThe History Channel's shows have stars that hail from all walks of life. Here's where these History Channel stars are today.
Read MoreIn 1994, Elton John's classic, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight," was released. A day earlier, Tina Turner's single, "What's Love Got to Do with It," dropped.
Read More1865 saw the first Wild West showdown, in which gambler Davis Tutt bet on himself to beat "Wild Bill" Hickok and lost his life. But for prospectors, the West was plenty wild long before Hickok busted a cap in Tutt's butt.
Read MoreSteve Perry fronted Journey to its greatest commercial success in the '80s, catapulting the band to arena rock stardom through the likes of "Open Arms" and "Don't Stop Believin'." However, by 1987, despite the triumph of Raised by Radio tour, the band went on hiatus for nearly ten years.
Read MoreYou might expect Billy Joel wouldn't have to worry about his finances all too much. But the Piano Man once sang a song of financial woe.
Read MoreJohn Belushi lived a short but eventful life filled with both overwhelming success and heartbreaking tragedy. This is the tragic real-life story of John Belushi.
Read MoreDon Henley might look more like friendly uncle than one of the greatest rock stars of all time, but rest assured, the man is most definitely a rock star.
Read MoreHard rock giant Def Leppard has been chugging away since 1977. Through all of it, singer Joe Elliot has been standing at the forefront of his group. Here's how much money he is now worth.
Read MoreIn one of his last interviews with Rolling Stone, Kurt Cobain intimated that Nirvana may have started its downward trajectory — that after a couple more albums, the band would probably dissolve, because the same people completing the same jobs is rather limiting.
Read MoreTo some in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) seemed the country's last chance at a promising future. Here's the tragic truth about his untimely death.
Read MoreMusic videos were amazingly effective for selling recordings. Some had practically nothing to do with the song itself and some made at least a passing attempt at a narrative. Also, an excuse for the band to hang out with very attractive other people. Like in "Hot for Teacher."
Read MoreThe Reed family faced decades of terrifying instances of lost time and alien abduction. This is the untold truth of the 1969 Berkshire UFO sighting.
Read MoreThe beef between 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. (Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace) is not only the most well-known and well-documented in rap history, it has come to embody the West Coast-East Coast hip-hop rivalry that took off in the 1990's.
Read MoreThe anodyne thing to do would be to pretend this article exists in a vacuum, but out of respect for your intelligence as a reader, the moment at hand should be acknowledged.
Read MoreThere is one enduring mystery about Pearl Jam, though: What, exactly, is up with the name? You can sort of understand where band names like "Nirvana" or "Alice in Chains" are coming from, but "Pearl Jam" just seems like Eddie Vedder and his cohorts picked two random words from a dictionary.
Read MoreThe Rolling Stones formed in 1962, and before all of their success in writing some of the best rock and roll songs to date, they actually wrote a jingle for a cereal commercial.
Read MoreWe all have had an occasion to lie -- sometimes about cherry trees, like George Washington, and other times, just to be polite. There is a difference between social niceties and pathological lying, though. But where is the line, and what happens when we cross it?
Read MoreFew horror movies are as iconic as F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent film Nosferatu, but the movie was a nightmare to make. This is the true story behind Nosferatu.
Read MoreIt was springtime in 1964, the Beatles were on a tour of France, and they heard Dylan's album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, his second studio album, for the first time. And liked it. A lot.
Read MoreSince before the United States was knee-high to a bald eagle, one person's majestic monument has been another's symbol of suffocating tyranny.
Read More
