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With 1974’s “Piano Man,” Billy Joel notched his first chart hit. But, as he later explained, “My career was neither here nor there at that time.” For 1976’s Turnstiles, his third album, the piano [...]

The funniest movie ever made about rock ‘n’ roll was 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap, a fictional and admirably accurate spoof of heavy metal stereotypes and the music business (penned by director Rob [...]

Windsong (1975) was probably John Denver’s most nature-inspired album. It lent its name to his newly established record label—formed, he said, to further Colorado musicians and his own [...]

Photographer Stephen Collector applied his attention to detail and lighting techniques to the world of ’80s music, a striking portfolio he shares with the Colorado Music Experience.

Armed with a love of music and a desire to record artists in the 1950s, Vicki Morosan pioneered Band Box Records—one of the only women of any era to own a label.

Once a Nashville renegade, later a favorite son of Texas, Willie Nelson boasts a popularity that has elevated him to a stature approaching that of a contemporary national folk hero.