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On March 31, 1982, the Doobie Brothers, who had started in the early ’70s with the hit “Listen to the Music,” announced their break-up. However, the Doobies reformed in 1987 and continued to [...]

They didn’t become national recording stars, but the Daniels lived the rock ’n’ roll dream for a short time in the ’60s as the darlings of Denver’s debutante set.

On March 24, 1967, the Rainy Daze’s “That Acapulco Gold,” one of the biggest Colorado-based hits of the‘’60s, peaked on Billboard’s singles chart.

Relive three amazing years in music in three volumes of interviews and images from the unrivaled archives of G. Brown.

On March 18, 1974, a gold record was awarded to Chicago for Chicago VII, recorded at Caribou Ranch in Nederland, Colorado. The Beach Boys sang on “Wishing You Were Here,” one of the album’s [...]

New York and Los Angeles had been the traditional headquarters of the music industry, but the business had become decentralized by the late 1990s. In local scenes—Minneapolis, Seattle and Athens, [...]

On March 11, 1975, Colorado’s Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids appeared as the band Fish & the Fins on television’s Happy Days, the week’s highest rated show.
From left to right: Sam [...]

On March 8, 1980, Dan Fogelberg had the top record in the U.S. with “Longer.” An established international star, the Midwestern singer-songwriter had settled in Colorado.

On March 5, 1963, country singer Patsy Cline died in a single-engine plane crash near Camden, Tennessee. Also killed were Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins. All three were among the performers [...]

On March 4, 1972, Gary Glitter had his first No.1 UK. hit, “Rock and Roll Part 2.” Later, “Rock and Roll Part 2” was played incessantly in every sports arena and stadium in America—getting its [...]