Rock and Culture Anniversaries

He had Edgar Allan Poe, Pink Floyd and, most of all, partner Eric Woolfson to thank.

They sounded like everybody — and nobody — else.

In the end, these stumbles were just another part of their legend.

This LP arrived during a low ebb in the relationship between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

This was one of the few times in the early '80s when Pete Townshend shared a truly great track with the band.

Anyone looking for the match-light moment when they exploded onto the national scene needs to search no further.

Coming off his first No. 1 single and in the middle of a nasty cocaine addiction, he made one of his best albums.

Like many albums in his extensive discography, this one didn't start the way it ended up.

He orchestrated this departure with a familiar sense of mystery and panache.

Future hit actually began life along a lonesome country highway outside Montgomery, Alabama.

This was more than a kiss-off to the Beatles. It was his demolition of everything the previous decade stood for.

Their frontman's death wasn't the end of the band's classic era. Instead, it was 'Made in Heaven.'