Anniversaries

The following day, he canceled all of his remaining concert dates, citing "unforeseen health reasons."

"It always felt like destiny," Phil Lesh would say many years after the world's most famous jam band was born.

Bret Hart explains his unwitting role in the charade and how the fake rock star vanished afterward.

On their first tours apart, Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne took different approaches to their shared back catalog.

He'd already constructed a hall of fame career with the Faces, yet seemed almost destined to become part of this timeline, too.

The 1995 shows helped kick-start the band's original lineup reunion.

In 1966, John Lennon remarked that his band was "more popular than Jesus."

Cracks had been spreading in the group's foundation for years.

The band didn't film or record any of the shows, but the work of some enterprising fans allows us to revisit this tour.

One lost his job, and the other is lucky he didn't lose his life.

Only one member – and basically one song – stood the test of time.

The album flopped and the band hates it — but what if they're all wrong?

At one point the Swedish pop group almost gave the song to another band.

The former threw the gauntlet down before embarking on the latter's 'British Steel' tour.

"We were all very tired and under pressure and it just came to a head," he later explained.

The founding guitarist left the group soon after what he later admitted was a "very disrespectful" act.

At 15 years old, Hendrix started his six-string journey.

"Everyone knew we wouldn't do it," Bjorn Ulvaeus said years later.

The former member of Pink Floyd struggled through the recording of his debut solo album, and so did the people around him.

A guitarist with a broken finger and a singer with the flu? Just another day on the job for rock's biggest band.