Rock and Culture Anniversaries

Motown's budding iconoclast finally forged a path to the individualism – and conviction – that he'd aspired to for so long.

They sounded like everybody — and nobody — else.

They topped the charts for a final time with this jigsaw puzzle of a song.

"The Power of Love" became their first chart-topping smash, but it didn't exactly begin with lofty expectations.

There was momentum to keep, and America still to be conquered.

They didn't seem capable of letting this one be.

Historic collaboration had a winding path to record store shelves.

His arrival led to critically lauded triumphs like '2112' and multiplatinum smashes like 'Moving Pictures.'

Success was born out of getting-reacquainted sessions held in early 1988 in Barbados.

Jeff Lynne had reached the end of a creative road with the out-sized construction – and success – of 'Out of the Blue.'

The tragedy cast a long shadow on the rock world and, in the days that followed, that shadow only lengthened.

Richard Ramirez spent a portion of 1984 and '85 committing a string of unspeakable crimes under cover of darkness.