Eventually, power ballads hit their stride in the early to mid-1980s, becoming a dominant force in both rock and pop music.

Forty-five years ago, in 1972, the Laramie High School marching band won two world championships during a tour through Europe. But they wouldn’t have done it without the discipline and organization ...

Ground-breaking TV music program The Old Grey Whistle Test had been on air for only a year when Focus arrived at the BBC TV studios in mid-December 1972. That week’s edition was already pretty solid – ...

FOND DU LAC - For the last year, Jim Kiser has been determined to uncover the lost history of the St. Mary’s Springs High School’s 15-day band trip to Europe in 1972. Kiser’s wife, Debbie Shepard, was ...

Earlier this year, Elvis Costello released an album titled “The Boy Named If.” Now, as a follow-up, he’s putting out an EP of songs that really were conceived or covered when he was a boy. His first ...

In 1972, before Elvis Costello was Elvis Costello, a young musician named Declan MacManus joined up with another young Liverpool musician named Allan Mayes to form a band called Rusty. They played the ...

1972 – The HERD – Side 2 : Track 4 – “Oye Como Va” from Carter Cowboy on Vimeo. My favorite doc in the about-to-wrap Dallas International Film Festival was Thunder Soul, about the Kashmere Stage Band ...

Forget the Yellow Submarine, it’s time to take a ride on the blue double-decker tour bus. That’s the news from the rock ‘n’ roll specialists at Julien’s Auctions, who are offering the original and ...

Members of 1960s rock band The Turtles have lost a major legal battle in their quest to collect copyright royalties from their old hit songs. The Florida Supreme Court held today (PDF) that the state ...