‘Head’ found the Monkees breaking away forever from the tightly scripted structure of a television show that had hurtled them to fame.

The transition from Eric Clapton to Jeff Beck sent the Yardbirds hurtling from classicism to the very edge of experimentalism in the blink of an eye.

Brian May makes a bold statement about how Queen’s stint with Adam Lambert shapes up against their Freddie Mercury-fronted period.

David Paich and Robbie Krieger trace the history of the Berlin Wall and its ultimate demise through the lens of music.

Here are Steely Dan’s five best drum performances, selected in tandem by our panel of Steely Dan authorities.

Steve Cropper has become one of the most respected of sessions men, a guitarist of economy, grit and grace. But how?

This legendary amalgam of 1970s-era fun seekers once had a much different purpose, according to the Monkees’ Micky Dolenz.

Tom Petty enthuses about the Traveling Wilburys off-handed creative spark, saying they’d record a track, then write the lyrics over dinner.

Hall and Oates have seen their music transformed by a variety of younger artists, but one recent take on “Maneater” hit home.

Roger Waters once replaced his school-age chum Nick Mason with another drummer, during the contentious sessions for Pink Floyd’s ‘The Final Cut.’