Anniversaries

It was the second straight time that replacing 'The Tonight Show' host left NBC with egg on their face.

The band's Lou Gramm was worried about "irreparable damage" that their new sound might cause.

World Cup soccer inspired the band to make a bold move into new territory.

Their fourth album finally unlocked an often-overlooked core influence: country music.

Fifty years after a band of relative unknowns hit the road using the established group’s name, most motivations remain unclear.

"I should've said, 'No, I will not go on. I will not do this,'" the singer involved later admitted.

Uneven album foreshadowed the end of the duo's classic era.

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley do their best Cousin Itt impressions while maintaining the band's mystique.

Mike Portnoy, Nita Strauss and Blaze Bayley analyze Iron Maiden's massive 1984 album in an exclusive book excerpt.

The band's 1974 debut offered tantalizing glimpses of their bright future.

The singer was then known as Freddie Bulsara.

Paul Stanley laid down the law before agreeing to end Kiss' decade-long studio hiatus.