In June 1966, Ginger Baker recruited guitarist Eric Clapton and bassist Jack Bruce to form Cream. The group’s success catapulted them to stardom—in the second half of the decade, Cream set the [...]
As the co-host of television’s Entertainment Tonight for ten years, John Tesh became a household name. But the role sidetracked him from his true love—music.
In 1976, after a decade of being rock’s “Beautiful Loser,” Bob Seger began his overdue breakthrough to stardom when his Live Bullet album went gold. Live Bullet, recorded at two [...]
Nothing short of a major event was expected when the Clash, one of punk rock’s biggest acts, opened the second leg of their American tour by invading Red Rocks on August 9, 1982. The band had [...]
Golf served as a unique requirement for Huey Lewis, the lead singer of Huey Lewis & the News, one of the most iconic music acts of the 1980s. Lewis played golf in the mornings before concerts, [...]
Phish was the left-field success story of the 1990s. One of the biggest concert draws in America, the determinedly eccentric Vermont quartet—guitarist Trey Anastasio, keyboardist Page McConnell, [...]
For several years, shows went smoothly at Red Rocks, with such acts as Bill Cosby, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass and Peter, Paul & Mary providing light-hearted entertainment. But the vibe [...]
Rock eccentric Mojo Nixon parlayed an irrepressible personality, a roguish sense of humor and a fondness for lusty rockabilly into swaggering punk originals like “Elvis Is Everywhere,” “Debbie [...]
In 1969, the first and only Denver Pop Festival opened at Mile High Stadium on Friday, June 27. Woodstock didn’t happen until three months later. The three-day event featured seventeen acts, [...]