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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.

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, [...]

The dietary needs of Elvis Presley made his other pursuits appear tame. “The King” once flew from Memphis to Denver to fetch a concoction from the now-defunct Colorado Mine Company restaurant in [...]

The Colorado Flood of 2013 impacted communities all across the state, creating significant hardship for hard-working Americans. To get them back on track, Hard Working Americans, a collaboration [...]

The Eagles were the archetypal California band of the 1970s. Their name was synonymous with the country-rock movement that sprang up in Los Angeles. But the act’s first-ever concerts were in Colorado.