Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and early ’70s.

Sly Stone, the iconic frontman of the band Sly and the Family Stone, and an influential figure in funk, soul and rock, has ...

With Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham on board, Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 self-titled album was the first record by what became ...

“1994 was the first year EJ [Eddie Jordan] got us all up on to his flatbed truck to play rock’n’roll in the paddock,” Hill ...

The recently-knighted Who frontman is to perform at Audley End House and Gardens in August, as part of the Heritage Live ...

(File photo by Chris Pizzello ... But that victory and his 1991 autobiography, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice: My Own Story,” set off other lawsuits that tore apart the musical family. Carl Wilson and other ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime ...

Jonathan Gould has written a group biography of Talking Heads named after one of the band’s biggest hits. Called “Burning Down the House,” the book explores the formation, evolution and ...

Book Review: A new biography goes long and deep on the rise and fall of rock band Talking Heads By: Ann Levin, The Associated Press Posted: 8:27 AM CDT Monday, Jun. 16, 2025 ...

He begins “Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock” with a vivid description of the drizzly June night in 1975 when the original trio – singer/songwriter ...

With their “unremarkable haircuts” and “nondescript casual clothes,” they offered a sharp contrast to the “baroque turn” that rock fashion had taken in the 1970s, Gould observes.