rock history

For all of its woolly, trapped-in-the-'70s imagery, the genre has proven surprisingly resilient.

For decades, rock was the center of the American music world, but that's been changing for some time now, and John Mellencamp doesn't see it ever coming back.

Here solo career looked like it was destined to be a dud after the Runaways splintered — then everything broke wide open.

Few bands have evolved in such a distinct way.

Classic rock changed forever in the past five years, as you'll see in this list of the era's innovations, losses and beginnings.

See how we ranked Iron Maiden's studio albums, from weakest to strongest.

Ultimate Classic Rock counts down the top albums of 1971.

I've been on a bit of a kick lately with AC/DC.  They're no doubt one of my favorite rock groups of all time.   It was interesting when I stumbled on this YouTube video of the first 'famous' AC/DC frontman Bon Scott back when he was a bubblegum pop singer.   Also to be fair, I found a video of Brian Johnson in his glam days.  Check it out.