In the 1970s, Mark Plotnick and his concert-going buddy Jim Summaria got to see all of their favorite bands at various concert venues in the Chicago area. “If it was big, it came to Chicago,” said ...

In the 1970s, rock and roll music blossomed. Well, it was more than that. It was like a nuclear bomb mushroom cloud of music. Big, buzzing guitars mixed with giant drum sounds and lead singers who ...

Rock and roll was born in the 1950s as a more raucous, electrified form of the blues. In the 1960s, the genre was given more life. Still rudimentary in some ways, it grew over the era and then found ...

In the beginning, there was Chuck Berry. And an electric guitar. And a swagger that freed popular music from the formality that existed before WWII and the bomb and the realization that one itchy ...

Cocker’s raw and powerful voice was a rare instrument of pure passion – gritty and ravaged while also heartbreakingly tender – and his greatness was also showcased in his electrifying stage presence, ...

From “The Twist” to “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” to “Hey Ya!,” the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has announced the Class of 2025, who all provided the soundtrack to our lives, no matter the generation.