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The Pasadena bad boys followed the party-hearty "Van Halen II" with this dark and menacing classic.

Released in March 1986, the legendary UK duo's first album crashed the Top 10 in America.

The song about a cocaine deal came with a video filmed in the Bradbury Building.

Today we celebrate the birthday of one of Canada’s greatest musical treasures: Alberta’s own Kathryn Dawn Lang, better known to her fans by two lower-case initials: k.d. And how, you ask, are we going to celebrate this very notable date...

Today we celebrate the birthday of the late, great Graham Bond, one of the founding figures of the British R&B movement of the 1960s and the man behind the aptly-named Graham Bond Organisation. To commemorate this important date, we thought...

Today we celebrate the birthday of legendary Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, and to commemorate the occasion, we thought we’d take a look at one of his albums that often gets overlooked because of its proximity to two of the most...

Today we celebrate the birthday of a guitarist who brought classical music to the masses with an instrumental called “Classical Gas.” To commemorate the date of his birth, however, we thought we’d shine a spotlight on the subsequent four albums...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Mark Knopfler, a man known far and wide for having been one of the founding members – not to mention the immediately-recognizable lead singer and guitarist – for Dire Straits. To commemorate the date...

Today we celebrate the birthday of vocalist B.J. Thomas, a man who first came to enormous fame in the late ‘60s thanks to the hits “Hooked on a Feeling” and “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head.” Although Thomas had most...