‘You’re Gonna Get It!,’ which was released on May 2, 1978, loaded up on Byrdsian jingle-jangle, classic-rock guitar crunch and a few meathead riff-based songs that made it clear that Tom Petty and his band had little in common with the skinny-tie kids and their synthesizers.
The first series of Beatles trading cards were issued by the Topps Co. in May 1964.
Sweet's breakthrough album, 'Sweet Fanny Adams,' was released in the U.K. April 1974.
In the late-'70s, the rest of Pink Floyd was offered a pair of song cycles from Roger Waters' fertile imagination -- this one, or one that would eventually coalesce into 'The Wall.' That choice changed rock history.
Reportedly leaving his band, security and management in the dark about a sudden wedding to his high school sweetheart, Bon Jovi said: "We did it for us."
When he started working on what would become his fourth solo album, Adrian Belew didn't even have a recording contract. Then he wrote a song called 'Oh Daddy.'
By turns chummily tuneful, emotionally pungent and toss-off hilarious, the unforced 'Through Life Together' is the sound of your average legend being what most would never dare be: Real.
Chicago - then known by a longer name - released their debut album in April of 1969.
When Black Sabbath veterans Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinnie Appice — collectively known as Heaven & Hell — released ‘The Devil You Know’ on April 28, 2009, no one could have guessed t
On April 27, 1979, Black Sabbath fired original lead singer Ozzy Osbourne.
Robin Trower's power trio masterpiece, 'Bridge of Sighs,' was released in April 1974.
The Moody Blues released 'On the Threshold of a Dream' on April 25, 1969.