Jimmy Paige found a little girl selling her dead father’s guitar for $50. What happened next made the music world…
Professor called Led Zeppelin musically simple. Then the quiet student went to the board. The Royal College of Music on…
An 82-year-old woman walked into one of the most famous guitar shops in the world carrying a battered case that…
Detroit, early 1971. Inside a corner office at Mottown’s headquarters on Woodward Avenue, Barry Gordy sat across from a stack…
Port Arthur, Texas, Beaumont, Texas, 100 miles apart on the same flat Gulf Coast plain, bracketed by refineries and the…
Before the performance that changed everything, there was a moment that almost no one knows about backstage at the Monterey…
On October 26th, 1970, 300 people received an invitation to a party. The party would have an open bar. It…
December 21st, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee, Mid-South Coliseum, the Stax Volt Yuletide Thing, the annual Christmas party of the greatest soul…
You know the song. Everyone knows the song. Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin, 1968, Cheap Thrills, number one. The…
Albert King was one of the three kings of blues, B.B. King, Freddie King, Albert King. He was 6 ft…