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On September 12, 1999, ZZ Top was the last band to play at Denver’s McNichols Sports Arena, one last hurrah before the venue's demise (it was demolished to make way for the Denver Broncos’ new [...]

In 1965, the first public Up with People shows were performed. Brothers Steve, Paul and Ralph Colwell had hooked up with Blanton Belk and Herb Allen to create Up with People as an alternative to [...]

Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac co-founder and a dynamic blues-rock guitarist, died in his sleep July 25, 2020. He was 73.

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.

July 2 is the birth anniversary of tenor saxophone player Lee Allen—born in 1927, he passed away in 1994. Allen grew up in Denver and attended school in the Whittier neighborhood. He located in [...]

Happy birthday to composer and pianist Peter Kater.

Little Richard, one of rock ’n’ roll’s most colorful icons, died on May 9, 2020 at 87. The cause of death was related to bone cancer.

John Prine, the man responsible for some of the most articulate and moving songs of the last 50 years, died due to complications related to COVID-19 on April 7, 2020. He was 73.

On April 10, 1976, Shad O’Shea & the 18-Wheelers’ “Colorado Call” bubbled under the Billboard Hot 100. The CB radio craze inspired the lyrics—Citizen Band radios, which were actually simpler [...]

Singer/songwriter Randy VanWarmer’s biggest success was the pop hit “Just When I Needed You Most,” which reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1979.