Whereas Oscar and Emmy statuettes are produced by huge high-end manufacturers, John Billings and his small team handcraft Grammy awards in the little town of Ridgway, Colorado.
The leader of Colorado’s biggest-selling band takes you from his first guitar to his platinum years and beyond.
birthdays
A symposium at Fiske Planetarium convened members of Spontanuity, whose psychedelic light show provided visual background for the Dead’s 1969 concert in Boulder.
The enormous impact of MTV’s revolutionary all-video format of the early 1980s transformed a slew of artists into iconic acts. Brian Brainerd’s portrait photography cemented the golden age of their appearances in Colorado.
Tim Curry, the British-actor who had a brief stint as a rock singer in the late ’70s, died on August 25, 2026. He was 80.
Americans were chattering away like mad on their CB (Citizens Band) radios when advertising agency director Bill Fries assumed the identity of C.W. McCall and recorded “Convoy.” The tale of the “rubber duck” turned into the trucker national anthem and became a No. 1 pop and country hit in January 1976.
Lee Allen
Tenor saxophone player Lee Allen grew up in Denver and attended school in the Whittier neighborhood. He located in New Orleans circa 1943 and, as the late Dr. John described it, “put that sound” on Little Richard’s hits and recordings with Fats Domino. Allen also played three shows with the Rolling Stones in 1981—two of them at Folsom… more ≫
On Record book series
Each volume of the award-winning On Record series gathers over 200 limited and extraordinary images and 100 interview-based profiles spotlighting an array of musical artists.
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