Music

Legendary rock icon Rod Stewart experienced a frightening health scare during a recent concert in Utah but demonstrated his trademark determination by finishing the performance despite the incident. During his June 19 show at Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre in West Valley City, the 81-year-old singer appeared noticeably less energetic than usual. According to reports … Read more

The long-running debate over who deserves a place among rock’s greatest guitarists has flared up once again, this time with Joan Jett delivering a blistering response to Ted Nugent’s criticism of her inclusion on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. The feud began late last year when Nugent took aim … Read more

In the mid-1970s, Ann Wilson and her sister Nancy formed Heart with a sound built on Ann’s extraordinary vocal range and the band’s fusion of hard rock power with folk-influenced songwriting — a combination that produced Crazy on You, Magic Man, and Barracuda, songs that demonstrated a level of musicianship and vocal control that placed … Read more

In 1985, John Fogerty, the singer and songwriter behind Creedence Clearwater Revival, was sued by his own former record label for plagiarism. The song he was accused of stealing had been written by exactly one person: John Fogerty. The roots of the dispute stretched back to Creedence’s breakup in 1972, after which Fogerty remained locked … Read more

In 1965, at the absolute height of the British Invasion, the Kinks were banned from touring America for four years, a punishment that gutted the band’s commercial momentum at the exact moment it mattered most. The reason traced back to a single violent outburst onstage in Cardiff, Wales, born out of the band’s notoriously combustible … Read more

On January 23, 1978, Terry Kath, founding guitarist and lead singer of the rock band Chicago, died from a single gunshot wound at a roadie’s home in Los Angeles. He was eight days away from his 32nd birthday. Jimi Hendrix had once called him one of his favorite guitarists alive, and his bandmates considered his … Read more

In July 1974, “Mama” Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas died of a heart attack in a London apartment owned by singer Harry Nilsson. Four years later, almost to the month, the Who’s drummer Keith Moon died in that same apartment, in the very same bedroom, at the exact same age Elliot had … Read more

n October 29, 1971, Duane Allman, the guitarist and founding force behind the Allman Brothers Band, died in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia, after swerving to avoid a truck. He was only 24 years old. A little over a year later, the band’s bassist, Berry Oakley, died in a motorcycle crash just three blocks … Read more

On the afternoon of December 31, 1984, 21-year-old Rick Allen, drummer for the British rock band Def Leppard, lost control of his Corvette on a country road near Sheffield, England. The car flipped, his seatbelt came undone, and he was thrown through the sunroof, severing his left arm in the process. What followed became one … Read more

In 1977, sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, the founders and frontwomen of the rock band Heart, were riding a wave of success when a sleazy publicity stunt nearly derailed everything they’d built. The fallout from that stunt produced one of the most recognizable rock anthems of the decade. The trouble started with Heart’s own record … Read more