In 1974, Chicago’s “Wishing You Were Here,” recorded at Colorado’s legendary Caribou Ranch and featuring backing vocals by three of the Beach Boys, peaked at No. 1 on Billboard’s easy listening chart.
On October 17, 1970, Sugarloaf’s “Green Eyed Lady” peaked at No. 3. on the Billboard Hot 100. Guitarist Bob Webber tells the story of Colorado’s great classic rock band in a new CoME podcast.
On October 12, 1997, at age 53, singer-songwriter John Denver was killed when the experimental two-seat plane he was piloting crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the California coast.
Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso and founder of Van Halen, died Tuesday at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer. CoME director G. Brown spoke with Van Halen over the years and has written [...]
Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso and founder of Van Halen, died Tuesday at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer. CoME director G. Brown spoke with Van Halen over the years and has written [...]
Denver-based singer and songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff started out in the band Born in the Flood before forming the Wheel and developing a dedicated following within the Denver music community. [...]
Happy 100th birthday to Charlie Burrell, the first African-American to become a member of a major orchestra—first the Denver Symphony Orchestra, and then the San Francisco Symphony [...]
Happy 94th birthday to Colorado Springs native Max Morath, “Mr. Ragtime.” Max single-handedly kept the essence of early 1900s ragtime in the public eye as a pianist, composer, actor and author.
