February 18, 2014 To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their debut album, here's the Top 10 Things I Actually Like About KISS (in no particular order)
1. The Rock and Roll Over Album Cover T-shirt. Even if you buy this shirt straight off the rack at Hot Topic tomorrow, people will wonder if you've had it since the '70's
Two men steeped in the traditions of American music, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, had a friendship that lasted nearly 40 years. But they only recorded together on one occasion, a two-day session that began on Feb. 17, 1969.
Released in February 1974, Humble Pie’s seventh studio album, ‘Thunderbox’ was pivotal for the seminal hard rock group led by legendary vocalist and guitarist Steve Marriott. But not in a good way, as it signaled their commercial fall from grace.
After the history-making appearance on 'The Ed Sullivan Show,' fans didn't have to wait too long for another glimpse of the Beatles. On Feb. 16, 1964, only one week after their debut, the group performed again on the popular variety show.
Most rock fans like to hear something a little different when their favorite artists release a new album. But when Deep Purple released their eighth studio LP, 'Burn,' on Feb. 15, 1974, things had changed for the band in some major ways.
On Feb. 15, 1969, Cream -- the group comprised of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker -- bid the world ‘Goodbye’ with the album by that same title; thus neatly closing the book on the altogether brief but consistently headline-hogging career of rock's very first supergroup.
"Basically, it's a comedy record."
The early '80s were a rough time for Aerosmith, with Joe Perry leaving the group in 1979 and Brad Whitford following two years later -- and only one new album, the uneven 'Rock in a Hard Place,' released between 1980 and '85. But on Feb. 14, 1984, the seeds for the band's comeback were planted backstage at Boston's Orpheum Theatre.
Conventional wisdom suggests that middle-of-the-road (MOR) soft rock and highbrow intellectual conceits shouldn’t make for happy bedfellows. But that was before they converged in the Alan Parsons Project, which built a remarkably successful career by applying pop music of many stripes to Steely Dan’s studio-bound perfectionism and Pink Floyd’s dreamy progressive rock signature.