The first band doesn’t want to start while no one is there, but the roommates don’t want the music to go too late. Soon, though, fans start filing in, escaping the cold November night.

Per their contracts, FAME’s new studio band, soon known as the FAME Gang, couldn’t record at other recording studios without Hall’s permission. “And they had to come in every day, and they ...

It was 70 years ago this month that Sgt. Pepper’s predecessor really taught the band to play. That was when “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and His Comets became the No ...