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On July 19, 1980, David Bowie made his theatrical debut playing the title role in The Elephant Man, which opened at the Denver Center of Performing Arts for a weeklong run. Bowie shortly took [...]

On July 13, 1974, Elton John’s gratefully titled Caribou peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart. his fourth chart-topping album in the U.S. The LP was recorded at Caribou Ranch, the [...]

Charlie Daniels, whose biggest hit, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” became an international smash in 1979, died of a stroke on July 6, 2020. He was 83.

On July 7, 1978, the Grateful Dead performed at Red Rocks Amphitheatre for the first time.

Until this year’s coronavirus pandemic, Blues Traveler has maintained a tradition of playing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Independence Day since 1992—interrupted only in 1999, when frontman John [...]

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 June 29, 1969, on the first and only Denver Pop Festival’s final day at Mile High Stadium, the Jimi Hendrix Experience played its last concert.

In 1967, Lothar & the Hand People were scheduled to play Red Rocks Amphitheater. The show was rained out, but the Denver band got to meet the headlining band, the Lovin’ Spoonful, who encouraged [...]

In 1978, Bruce Springsteen made his first visit to the Rocky Mountain region, performing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.