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In 2011, classical violin virtuoso Eugene Fodor died at age 60. Fodor was born in Denver and made his solo debut with the Denver Symphony Orchestra at the age of ten. Dubbed “the Mick Jagger of [...]

In 2003, a fire at the Station nightclub in Rhode Island claimed the lives of 99 victims; guitarist Ty Longley, a member of the evening’s headlining band Great White, was also lost in the [...]

In February 1995, Denver songwriter Crystal Cartier thought she had a rock-solid case against the planet’s most famous music man. The local crooner had filed a lawsuit in federal court in Denver, [...]

Warren Zevon spent a couple of years in the early 1970s touring as the Everly Brothers’ pianist/bandleader. After their breakup, he worked alternately with Phil and Don Everly—and sojourned to [...]

To commemorate the 227-date “Hysteria” world tour, Def Leppard filmed a concert video at Denver’s McNichols Arena on February 12 and 13, 1988, titled In the Round–In Your Face.

Images, interviews & insights from the year in music

In the summer of 1972, Mary MacGregor, a pop singer from Minnesota, moved to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, a small ski town in the Rockies populated by many small clubs featuring live music. For [...]

Kitaro was already widely recognized throughout Asia and other parts of the world when he unified his work for worldwide distribution circa 1986. Suddenly, the American market burst open for the [...]

As a songwriter, Chuck Berry stood head and shoulders above rock ’n’ roll’s early stars. The majority of his output was self-penned, and during the second half of the 1950s he added new hits to [...]

The band Rush announced that Neil Peart, one of the most virtuosic drummers in rock music history, died on January 7, 2020 at age 67, after battling brain cancer. Peart, a gracious and kind man, [...]