Rock and Culture Anniversaries

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

This nationally broadcast reunion was as emotionally resonant for fans as it was brief for the participants.

Just how "live" was it?

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards found their musical partnership again on this platinum-selling international Top 5 hit.

Two legends grew up around this 1974 appearance with Elton John. One was true, but the other was not.

This was their last album of the '70s – and in more ways than one.

Hopes for a global resurgence ended in Arizona after 80 tense concerts.

All four members left the band at some point in the last 18 months of their existence.

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

‘Ride the Lightning’ track was inspired by vision of the Biblical 10th plague on Egypt.

They were already at a crossroads after just one jammy studio project.

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