Barry Melton returns to Country Joe and the Fish’s brief but influential career, including a generation-defining appearance 55 years ago at Woodstock.

The gold-selling ‘Chicago 13’ nearly cracked the Billboard Top 20 after arriving 45 years ago – but something was very wrong.

“Greensleeves” has disappeared from the end of the Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love” – and that’s just the beginning.

Grunting and grinding with power and volume, Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s ‘Not Fragile’ arrived 50 years ago as the ultimate classic hard-rock album.

When the Talking Heads’ ‘Fear of Music’ came wiggling out of my speakers for the first time 45 years ago, it was obvious I was onto something different.

IO Earth lost almost all its equipment when a fire swept through the complex where the British prog rock band’s studio and rehearsal space were located.

Here’s a look back at a handful of early songs that pointed the way from Yes’ self-titled debut, released 55 years ago today.

‘Weight of the World,’ the latest release from prog-metal multi-instrumentalist Mark Anthony K and Joe Bailey, continues Dark Monarchy’s upward progression.

“Rock Lobster” arrived 45 years ago today on the B-52’s debut, with a zany approach that softened the defenses of even the most stubborn music snob.

Velvet Crush had already made a critical splash before ‘Teenage Symphonies to God’ arrived 30 years ago today. Then something amazing happened.