No one this side of Duran Duran benefited more from the iconography of MTV, but Billy Idol was actually from a previous generation, having formed the punk band Generation X back in 1976. Still, Idol knew how to leverage the new medium by expanding upon those punk roots with hooky pop, St...
Unlike most groups of their vintage, the Hollies had their greatest successes in the 1970s, with “Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress)” (1972) and “The Air That I Breathe” (1974). The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010....
Jonas Brothers, American soft-rock band noted for its combination of optimism, catchy tunes, and cover-boy good looks. The members were Joe, Kevin, and Nick Jonas. The brothers released a number of popular albums and made various television appearances,
Joni Mitchell’s first album, collaborated with members of the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and, with Stephen Stills of Buffalo Springfield and the Hollies’ Graham Nash, formed the “supertrio” Crosby, Stills and Nash (which became a quartet with the occasional addition of Neil Young...
The Beatles were a British musical quartet of enduring popularity that dominated rock and roll music in the 1960s. The band’s immortal hit songs include ‘Please Please Me,’‘Help!,’‘Yesterday,’‘Yellow Submarine,’‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamond
Fleetwood Mac, British blues band that evolved into the hugely popular Anglo-American pop-rock group whose 1977 album Rumours was one of the biggest-selling albums of all time. The recording reflected the simultaneous breakups of the two couples in the b
The Animals, a five-piece rock group from northeastern England whose driving sound influenced Bob Dylan’s decision, in 1965, to begin working with musicians playing electric instruments. The band’s songs included ‘House of the Rising Sun’ and ‘We Go