The bands below were some of the most influential on subsequent musicians. These songs from the 1980s made everyone want to start a band.

Sonny Curtis, writer of "I Fought the Law" and the 'Mary Tyler Moore Show' theme song, died Sept. 19 at age 88.

At this point, The Clash had three guitarists. They were a five-piece band rather than the four-piece which became familiar. The guitarist who left a few weeks after the Screen on the Green outing was ...

Before he’d even met Sting and Andy Summers, drummer Stewart Copeland knew exactly what kind of band he would eventually form ...

Sonny Curtis, the frontman of Buddy Holly’s band The Crickets who wrote classic songs including the theme for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has died. He was 88. Curtis died Friday “after a sudden ...

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