Panning across a nighttime cityscape as a pensive synth plays, the music video to Blondie’s 1978 hit, “Heart of Glass,” is simple, but effective. Lead singer Debbie Harry is front-and-center ...

The first release of Horses by Patti Smith wasn’t entirely successful back in 1975. In the years that followed, though, the album became a legacy item in Smith’s discography. It inspired generations ...

Rock music is generally traced back to the 1950s, but classic rock had its breakthrough in the '70s and '80s. While Elvis Presley is often called the King of Rock and Roll, rock music was actually ...

With the Beatles a thing of the past and the counterculture revolution aging into different forms of expression, rock music in the 1970s evolved into an even more sophisticated and album-oriented art ...

Whatever happened to real rock music? Whether or not the formerly world-ruling genre is dead, barely surviving, or still going strong is a conversation that gets rock loyalists fired up. Regardless, ...

The outsize personality of U.S. rock singer Meat Loaf, who died age 74, was cherished and mourned across Europe where news of his passing dampened many a breakfast table on Friday. Andrew Lloyd Webber ...