Anniversaries

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.

It was the second straight time that replacing 'The Tonight Show' host left NBC with egg on their face.

As a tribute to a recently deceased friend, Cooper led a celebrity campaign to restore the Hollywood landmark.

The band's Lou Gramm was worried about "irreparable damage" that their new sound might cause.

World Cup soccer inspired the band to make a bold move into new territory.

Their fourth album finally unlocked an often-overlooked core influence: country music.

Fifty years after a band of relative unknowns hit the road using the established group’s name, most motivations remain unclear.

"I should've said, 'No, I will not go on. I will not do this,'" the singer involved later admitted.

Uneven album foreshadowed the end of the duo's classic era.

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley do their best Cousin Itt impressions while maintaining the band's mystique.

The King offered unlikely inspiration for the group's controversial 1989 hit.

Mike Portnoy, Nita Strauss and Blaze Bayley analyze Iron Maiden's massive 1984 album in an exclusive book excerpt.

The band's 1974 debut offered tantalizing glimpses of their bright future.