Tabano’s replacement was 19-year-old guitarist Brad Whitford, a friend of a friend from Reading, Massachusetts who was playing with a band named Justin Thyme. They didn’t know it, but the classic ...

Music stars such as David Bowie, Free, Rod Stewart and the Faces and Mott the Hoople graced stages in Sunderland back in the ...

It was back in January 1970 when Free made a live recording at the Sunderland venue The Fillmore, also known as the Locarno. The Sunderland Echo report at the time said: “The Fillmore’s next big event ...

It's a balls to the walls, big-hearted but empty-headed jukebox musical that celebrates the 1980s hair bands. Guaranteed to ...

Find out which rock band formed on this day in 1974 and where Guns N' Roses put on one hell of a show in 1991.

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and his bandmates in The Coverups have made a habit of announcing their sporadic ...

The Boston rockers' first single was this inspirational power ballad, which snuck into the lower reaches of the US Top 75 on ...

The line-up, which is expected to feature theatre, music and film events, a "glimpse into the future" of the venue and a ...

Roman Emperor Constans is assassinated and the general Magnentius proclaims himself the new Emperor 1126: Emperor Huizong abdicates the ...

Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of The Band, has died. He was 87. Hudson died early Tuesday in a nursing home near Woodstock, New York, his former manager, Jim Della Croce, confirmed to ...

A band you’re gonna like, whether you like it or not.” The proclamation in the press ads for the New York Dolls’ debut album ...