The fickle nature of pop music ensures that even the finest artists only enjoy a finite window of success when it comes to hit singles. Nobody in music history stretched that theory to its limits ...

1975 arrived just like any other year. But by the time the 12 months of the decade’s middle ended, popular music was moving toward a different place than where it had started. Along with the ...

The 1970s produced some of the most talented, prolific and iconic female vocalists of all time. From once-in-a-lifetime voices like Patti LaBelle and Aretha Franklin to pop culture royalty like Patti ...

Everybody knows how George Harrison started the ’70s: His seven-times platinum international chart-topping triple album All Things Must Pass reeled off the No. 1 “My Sweet Lord” in the wake of the ...

There is no denying the Commodores’ 1977 self-titled album was a huge success at the time and a harbinger of even bigger things to come. It was their first album to reach the Top 10 of the Billboard ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. The dazzling ...

The '70s were defined by change for Genesis. Their first album of the decade, 1970's Trespass, became their last with co-founder Anthony Phillips. And so it went. They were already shifting the ...