Matt Springer

What’s more American than rock ‘n’ roll? Rock ‘n’ roll songs about America, that’s what.

With so many classic tracks, it's easy to forget many of the band's less-celebrated gems.

For all the great singles, sometimes the best moments on the Rocket Man's records are the deep cuts.

John Hughes' film transcends “crazy uncle watches nieces and nephews, learns the meaning of family” plot.

Fred "Derf" Farebrother later served as the singer-songwriter's band chauffeur and sometime roadie.

'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' was the second studio album he released in 1973 and his seventh in five years.

Ultimate Classic Rock ranks Billy Joel albums, from worst to best.

In 1969, everybody had a hard year, and everybody had a good time. It was a year in which history seemed to be tripping over itself -- the moon landing, Woodstock and Altamont, and the slow disintegration of the Beatles.

On Nov. 11, 1965, the Beatles convened to finish recording their sixth album, 'Rubber Soul.' Entering the studio at around 6PM, they realized they were a couple songs short of the 14 tracks slotted for the new record. Believe it or not, John Lennon and Paul McCartney were having trouble writing enough material for the album. So they "tossed off" a few new songs and resurrected a cast-off

When the Beatles took the stage fifty years ago today (Oct. 13 -- ignore the date on this video) to appear on the variety show 'Sunday Night at the London Palladium,' they were four lads armed with the simple tools of their early classics--a bass, two guitars, drum kit. The psychedelia, the massive studio productions, the brilliance and adoration, suspicion and disintegration -- those were years a