Throughout the Cold War, anxieties surrounding nuclear war found its way in the pop charts, inspiring some of music's biggest ...

Today in Music History for Oct. 12: In 1609, "Three Blind Mice," believed to be the earliest printed secular song, was published in London. In 1880, Healey Willan, one of Canada's most influential ...

Deceptively straightforward but with a rhythmic banana skin, Genesis's transformation from major cult band to stadium-filling ...

Last year, former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett recorded a performance at the famous Royal Albert Hall that commemorated ...

By the time Geoff Downes first joined Yes in 1980 – he left the following year, but later re-joined in 2011 – he already had a successful musical career behind him as a member of The Buggles, ...

On this day in (October 6) in 1983, George Strait released his third studio album, Right or Wrong. In 1984, it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, marking the first of 27 LPs to ...

When an experimental project escaped from the studio in 1980, no one could have predicted the consequences for both prog and ...

Def Leppard broke a pretty big charting history record with the release of 'Hysteria' in 1987 and 'Pyromania' in 1983.

Jane Birkin was an actress and a singer who became the face of French girl beauty. In the early 1980s, she inspired the design of the iconic Hermès Birkin bag. The mother-of-three was born in 1946; ...

There are plenty of iconic bands with already-cemented legacies still on the road playing live — even without a single original member in the current lineup. Here's our look at some of the most ...

Best known for his12 years with Steve Hackett, the US-born Swede explores his own life and times at last. And is that a Pink ...